Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ends with uncertainty as to which country owns it -Russia, Britain or the U. S. Mr. Stefansson, who in 1914 took Wrangel Island for the British and later offered it to the U. S., seems, according to Russian advice, to have been beaten by the Bolsheviki. More certainly, nobody- except the aerophile scientists-believes that Wrangel Island is of any value...
...better played. All in all a rare week. Spooks is a mystery play. Borrowing a descriptive bit from Ring Lardner, one might say that the mystery was how it came to be produced. It is one more of those complicated compasses varying to every point in the circle except the point of actual guilt. A few minutes before you go home, the true offender is ferreted out, love is rewarded, justice triumphs. Grant Mitchell, an excellent actor who has run into a rude streak of luck since the cheerful months in The Tailor-made Man, is again making the best...
...press associations except the Associated Press (the largest...
...doubt, is the publicity involved. To the average person, this might not mean much, but to a moving-picture actress, already much in the public eye, it must be particularly distasteful. Of course, we may be thankful that the plot was discovered before any damage was done?except the publicity. But even so, there is danger that the thing will become an epidemic. That is, enterprising press agents, now that the jewel-theft scheme has pretty well worn out, may try to fake kidnapping plots and in that way get their employers' names in the paper...
Last week, at Cambridge University, a certain distinguished American professor registered chagrin. The professor was presumably in his library. Piled neatly on the library table were some papers and magazines, all European publications, except...