Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While the farm vote rules some states, because 51% of the voters in those states are farmers, it can no longer rule the nation except as a minority may rule. Reason: only about one-third of the U. S. farms...
...Cabinet, as presented to the Reichstag, is exactly as originally announced (TIME, Feb. 7), except that the important Ministry of Interior was given at the last moment to Herr Walter von Keudell, a rich young landed Junker; and Dr. Oskar Hergt was shifted from the portfolio of Interior to that of Justice...
...realism bores Parisians, German realism irritates them, Belgian Congo superrealism shocks them. Hanging in the private Gallerie Sur Realist on Mont Parnasse last week was a painting by a Congo Negro of a Congo Negro in a peculiar posture, nude except for a string of beads and a rope of silver ornaments. Parisian women, profoundly shocked, demanded that the unsightly painting be removed. Police investigated, ousted it from the public...
...abort at three months, or was the halt in her menses during the three months due to some other thing, to an unknown cause? It is impossible to say, except that artificial fecundation rarely succeeds...
...They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original" on that shore of exotic wreckage and treasure, the Left Bank. That he was born in the U. S. is unimportant except that his inability to subsist there argues his febrility. There is about him much of the hot-house plant which, luxuriating in the warmth and humus of countries long inhabited, would perish in the rigers of a "wilderness." His name is Ezra Pound.* When first he appeared in London...