Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy to think of any parallel to President Coolidge's amazing address to the New York Chamber of Commerce, except a certain notorious prayer. The author of that prayer also thanked God he was not as other men are, and recorded with the same smirking self-satisfaction his financial righteousness and his virtuous self-restraint. No rich parvenu can ever have addressed his humblest poor relation in a tone of more offensively oleaginous patronage than this...
...five years-and therefore it is expected that the loss in revenue will be spread out over several shears. One of the questions remaining to be decided last week was what is to be the tax on theatre admissions. A sub-committee proposed to retain the tax except on the legitimate drama, which it is felt can least afford to bear the tax. But trouble was encountered in defining "legitimate drama." Finally the following tentative definition was drawn...
...Naval Court inquiring into the causes for the loss of the Shenandoah finished taking testimony several weeks ago, except for testimony as to the strength of the structure of the dirigible. A recess had been taken to last week to allow scientific tests to be made-but by last week a new angle of the inquiry had developed...
...Harvard Dramatic Club is youth, I hope confident, I hope daring, I hope full of the will to experiment. Personally, I am getting a bit woary of "Scholarship". I want education that calls forth the creative side of youth, and puts no fetters on it in the process, except the fetters of artistic sincerity...
...Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line, freight congestion at Jacksonville-rightly known as the gateway to Florida-has backed up traffic as far north as Savannah and Atlanta. Indeed ever since Oct. 29 the Seaboard has found it necessary to declare an embargo on all carload freight except food for human and animal consumption, railway supplies, tank cars and petroleum products. After elaborate precautions, householders can get less than carload lots of household effects through in about three weeks. An especial dearth of automobiles in Florida is reported, owing to the practical impossibility of shipping them into...