Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NATIONAL AFFAIRS, no one except the President has been given the floor more often than Senator Borah...
...could propose a 20th amendment to the Constitution today to provide that Senators could not be elected except by and with the consent of the Senate, and not a single State in the Union would ratify...
...donkey engines were crawling with mice. Reservoirs and pipelines were clogged with drowned bodies. And still the mice came, endlessly advancing, followed by wheeling, crying flocks of birds great and small ?hawks, vultures, owls, magpies, jays, even (according to the Associated Press) wild ducks which, seldom carnivorous (except for fish), must presumably have mistaken the undulating carpet of rodents for a grey lake. Running amuck in the tumbling, whispering, squeaking herds went coyotes and wildcats; even a wolf was seen. But mankind had warred too well upon the natural enemies of mousedom* in Kern County. The mouse millions marched...
...dramatic art. Paradoxically, it falls short of technical efficiency the while it achieves a glorious fullness of unacademic atmosphere, characterization and emotional conflict. In the play, all the tent-show folk-hula dancer, snake-charmer, clown, odd-job men - accept with varying humors their haphazard, futile nom-adism-all except the barker, "Nifty" Miller, soul and essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer in a stable community. But the ballyhoo beckons...
After the two initial performances April at the Hasty Pudding Club in Cambridge, the entire company will go on an extended trip during the spring vacation. Last year the tour included Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg, and New York. A trip visiting different cities except for New York, is planned for this springs...