Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Untermyer, able Manhattan lawyer, now on a round-the-world cruise, stopped in Manila for two days, talked with Governor General Leonard Wood, found the Philippines "bristling with complications." Also, said Mr. Untermyer, "I found less interest among the natives than I expected on the question of independence, except among the politicians...
...shouting across the auditorium. Paper darts sailed down from the galleries. Some people rammed their fists against their ears. Two women jumped up and left the room, running. Pandemonium continued. Ears ached, foreheads throbbed. There was no denying that all the noises in the U. S. had been reproduced except the explosion of Black Tom. That might come at any moment. But no-after an inferno that only a very serious person could have invented came silence. The Manhattanites gasped, a few clapped, many cat-called and hooted. Arguments raged for blocks around as the noise-beaten crowd dispersed through...
...grain transportation. Competitors suffered. Also like the elder Mr. Rockefeller, he made legitimate money by avoiding wastes and making savings in his business. Philip D. Armour I invented the scheme of utilizing every part of a slaughtered animal ?flesh, hide, hair, horns, hoofs, bones, bristles, offal, everything "except the squeal." But more than this, he belonged to the band of giants of his time?Henry H. Rogers (Standard Oil); John W. Gates, speculator from California; August Belmont, Charles T. Yerkes and Thomas Fortune Ryan who managed street railways to their own profits. Those of these men who still live...
...explanation came, last week, except the guess that enemies of Composer Strauss must have devised this cruel means to hound an old man out of Vienna, to perhaps drive him mad. Herr Strauss has many enemies; for he has played many a practical joke, sometimes leading an orchestra deliberately wrong and then reviling the know-nothing audience when it applauds...
Having so much in common both in tradition and in modern tendency, it in unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert in the fall on the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. Given at this time, the importance of the concert as a noteworthy attraction is somewhat overshadowed by other social activities, and the program is composed entirely of old glees and popular songs which are fitted for such an occasion. Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation of the best work of both clubs...