Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nomination for Vice President on the Coolidge ticket. For eight years he has devoted himself to studying agricultural problems, to farming, to a quiet strengthening of his fences, to making friends. Today he has a stronger backing, more potential political power, and a better chance than any other man except Mr. Coolidge. He looms larger than any other. Popular, able, rich, with a fine record and an attractive personality, Lowden is the real candidate. The farmers are crazy about him. He is the agricultural hero...
...like to see him taking his week-end tramps among the woods and hills, . . . always alone, except for two stalwart figures that follow at a discreet distance, his hat off, his cherry-wood pipe in full blast?he once confessed that he had never given more than a shilling for a pipe?and his long strides devouring the miles with an air of lusty exhilaration. He is English to the core and loves his country for the right things...
...permanent cures there. "We do not know that it is a remedy that can be reproduced by any reputable scientific laboratory," said Dr. Rudolph Matas of New Orleans, thereby laying his tongue on the kernel of the profession's skepticism, for Chemist Horovitz has steadily refused to tell, except in general terms, the formula of his discovery. Chemists have been unable to analyze some of its elements. But if the claims made for it are true, no assertions-even a New York Commissioner's-could exaggerate the importance of narcosan...
...outstripped by the gingerly lope of another animal who had only to thread his way across a stationary stage. Later on, the villain commits suicide, and whatever of the audience remains is given explicit assurance that Connaught had never been a wife to him, had never even kissed him, except on the wedding day which does not count...
...Story* is much the same Camelotian idyll as that told by Scribe Malory and Poet Tennyson, except that relations and motives are made infinitely clearer and the characters might be leisure-class folk of our own time and place, invested with more than the usual emotional intensity, ready wit, nice manners and good intentions...