Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times, it is a rabid effort at the sensational. It gives little real opportunity to Miss Keane, except to show her gifts as a quick-change artist. Amid the lustrous costumes, she is a cake of soap, foaming and floating among its own prismatic bubbles. A large and untiring cast utter the feverishly banal dialog incessantly...
...told him a funny story; how he toured the world with Jacob Schaefer, "the Wizard." Hoppe defeated Jake Schaefer, but the old man trained his son, young Jake, to take revenge. Once, indeed, young Jake defeated Hoppe, took the title, but was defeated in turn after a few months. Except for this brief period, Hoppe, now 37, has been champion for 17 years. In the last chapter of his book he asks the question: "How long can I keep my title...
...Palm Beach, one John Cardegna, tennis professional, played a tennis- golf match against one A. G. Tait, golfer, used a tennis racket and ball for all strokes except putts. For 18 holes, Cardegna lobbed, .served; Tait drove, swiped, won4 up. At the conclusion of play, Cardegna's friends consoled him. Said they: "You would surely win if Tait, equipped with golf sticks, should oppose you on a tennis court...
...tolling-bells were drowned in a roar of gunfire-the body of Friedrich Ebert had baen lowered into its last resting place, following a Catholic burial service.* Then, all was quiet except for the shuffling of unwilling and retreating footsteps and the thump of the earth as the diggers began to fill in the grave...
When the gobbet awoke, it had a skin. It could not swim, except ver- tically, like a puppy treading water, until its head grew heavy. Then it took on a tight, corrugated armor-corset. Blue flint chippings-teeth-hedged the emery-paper tongue. Filiform barbels, for probing mud, sprouted under the chin. By this time, the gobbet was recognizable as a fish, a young Sturgeon, Sturly...