Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list is approximately correct except that the League of Nations probably belongs as much, or more, in the list of Democratic taboos as in the Republican list. The League helped to lose a principal election for the Democrats-and that only about four years...
...arbitration, security and disarmament was marred by a series of disruptive, though abortive incidents. New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Italy and Japan threw monkey wrenches of varying sizes into the protocol machinery. Through the masterly tact of Dr. Eduard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czecho-Slovakia, the situation was in each case?except that of Japan?saved. The waves of excitement of the Italian furore, in which France and Britain took a hand, were stilled by an allusion of Dr. Benes to Euclid?that as Italy was in agreement with Britain and that France agreed with Britain and that he agreed with Britain...
Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending upon the point of view, Mr. Churchill is not taken seriously. His appeal for cooperation and persevering action among men of good sense therefore fell upon many deaf ears, except in political circles, where "Winnie's" inimitable propensity for "bobbing up" is well known...
...course the biographies of the separate composers will be treated in relation to the musical and literary influences of the epoch, but the primary material for discussion will be afforded by the works of the composers themselves. It is futile to study the music of any period from books, except in so far as they corroborate the internal evidence of the music itself...
...that the future President took a course in political economy while an undergraduate, but Dr. Laughlin looks in vain for suggestions of those qualities which later made him famed beyond his classmates. "The case for academic training as a preparation for politics," he concludes, "is not a strong one, except so far as the university may possibly work for character rather than for scholarship." There is certainly no hint in this biography that Roosevelt, who seven years after graduation was Republican candidate for Mayor of New York, ever participated in what political activity was then known about the Yard...