Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contrary to precedent, all the remaining 24 were sworn in together. Then, with a sweeping gesture, Mr. Dawes ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to carry out the order of the Senate for the inauguration of the President on the east front of the Capitol. The jammed galleries-all except the executive gallery-were instantly in a hurly burly as everyone rushed for the door. The floor of the Chamber emptied with almost as much confusion...
...Supreme Court filed in, all wearing black satin skull caps, except Justice McReynolds, whose bald pate, unprotected, bore the chilly breeze. Sixteen years before, at that time and place, a heavy blizzard was blowing; slush was ankle deep. On that occasion, Chief Justice Taft, now about to administer the oath of Office to the President, had taken that same oath himself, but in the Senate Chamber. The Cabinet, including Mr. Hughes, retired, appeared in their silk hats. The new Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, was with them; in the fortunes of the day, a dent had been stove...
...manner which has left the Isle of Pines Treaty unacted upon for a score of years, the World Court proposal for over two, and Muscle Shoals for something longer. To be sure, Mr. Dawes is disadvantaged by being able to do very little for the next four years except talk against the Senate and at it; but if, four years from now, he has assumed the post of the champion of the people against legislative flummery, then he will have a great political asset...
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...Harvard Crimson assumes no responsibility for the sentiments expressed by correspondents, and reserves the right to exclude any communication whose publication may for any reason seem undesirable. Except by special arrangement, communications cannot be published anonymously...