Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyes gleaming with anger." He was alleged to have declared "Sir Austen's language was the most disgraceful I have ever experienced. I will not change my point of view or my stand. My instructions are specific to vote against the admission of any nation except Germany to a Council seat...
...Premier Briand set out for Geneva without stopping even to draw up the usual "Ministerial Declaration," although he stated that he would soon come back and present his new Ministry to the Chamber. Meanwhile it was, of course, obvious that the new Cabinet is the old one over again-except that its four new members swing it slightly to the Right...
...common-she must be common,' said Mme. Zizi. 'Her father is a man who runs from house to house, locating vacant apartments. How Carol came to meet such people I do not know, except that his entourage was shamefully bad. His aides-de-camp never looked after him properly...
Servus Servorum. In 1902, James Cash Penney began business with one store in Wyoming. Last year his 676 stores in 44 states (all except Vermont, Delaware, Rhode Island, Florida) did business aggregating $90,000,000-chiefly small-town gear.* Last week he announced a gift of half a million dollars to construct a building containing 100 small apartments to be occupied, rent-free, by aged Evangelical ministers. This home of God's retired servants will be located at Green Cove Springs, Fla., on the St. John's River. Mr. Penney's summer home is in Belle Isle, Miami Beach...
...During the last year Mr. Penney's business has shown a greater gain than any other well-known chain stores except F. & W. Grand...