Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this man a Moses, fitted to lead the people out of a wilderness which is his own creation, only? Is he of the George Washington type, as counsel would have you believe ? Is he not rather of the all too familiar charlatan and demagog type?like Alcibiades, Catiline, and except for a decided difference in poise and mental powers in Burr's favor, like Aaron Burr? He is a good flyer, a fair rider, a good shot, flamboyant, self-advertising, wildly imaginative, destructive, never constructive except in wild non-feasible schemes, and never overly careful as to the ethics...
...proposed by Colonel Mitchell and as proposed by a special committee of the House of which Colonel Mitchell's lawyer, Congressman Reid, is a member; or to follow the recommendation of the President's Aircraft Board, headed by Dwight W. Morrow, which recommended few major changes in organization except the creation of Assistant Secretaries in the War, Navy and Commerce Departments...
...inquired, "How much did Laidoner get paid for his report?" Previously the Turkish representative before the Council, Munir Bey, had delivered an interminable harangue in which he raked up endless legal quibbles. He alleged that the Council had no right to dispose of Mosul, under the Treaty of Lausanne, except by a unanimous decision in which Turkey's vote must be counted...
When Signer Scialoja, Acting President of the Council, informed Munir Bey that "unanimous" was to be understood as "unanimous except for the votes of either Britain or Turkey, the interested par-ties," the Turks walked out, declaring that they had no authority from Angora to accept such a vote. This action amounted to flouting the League of Nations and the World Court, the latter having ruled that under the Treaty of Lausanne the Council was competent to adjudicate the dispute (TIME...
...ironic fate of Hans Andersen that he aspired vainly to almost every form of literary composition except the one in which he excelled. It was the tragedy of this neurotic genius's life that even the women he loved would not have him. He was the original "ugly duckling," and he never evolved into anything better than an ugly drake. After following Jenny Lind, famed "Swedish Night-ingale," over half the world, he died in discontented bachelorhood...