Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haskell, who has been somewhat nearer the scene of action, believes that the time is ripe for a positive policy. Life in Russia, he thinks, is not life in Mars or life very much different from life in any other country, except for the lack of currency...
...also the oldest living graduate of Columbia University (Class of 1840). After an initial experience as a railroad clerk, a clerk in the Board of Education, and an insurance actuary, he organized the U. S. Trust Co. in 1853. From that date to 1902, he served as its President, except for a two-year period during the Civil War, when he was called by Abraham Lincoln to act as Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. Since 1902, Mr. Stewart has acted as Chairman of the Board of the bank which, a half-century before, he had organized...
...masses as detached themselves temporarily for cultural adventuring in Europe seldom penetrated the interior as far as Budapest. With London they were theatrically acquainted, with Paris, with Berlin, and even to a slight extent with Vienna and Moscow. The barrier of distance plus the barrier of language, almost insuperable except to the penetrating student, blocked cultural roads to Budapest. Then some wandering prospector struck dramatic gold, Liliom was produced, and Hungary became the cynosure of caravans of U. S. theatre men hurrying across the wastes of Central Europe in covered wagon-lits...
...hold that Coolidge will win rather easily over Davis. Yet those who have taken pencil and paper, and attempted to discover just how the Republicans will get the electoral votes necessary for victory are not so certain of all this. As yet there has been no barometer-except perhaps grain price-to register political sentiment in the country...
...best possible description of a person or an event in the news . . . tells the story at a glance. . . . People who are unfortunate in personal appearance often object to picture publicity, and their wishes are respected. Pictures of deformed persons, or persons shown in distressing circumstances rarely appear, except when such publication is believed to be a genuine service . . . as in the case of criminals...