Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will constitute a permanent hangover for various of the horny-handed who have mounted to ministerial and other eminence. It is summed up in the sentence−Life will never be the same again. I must except a man of the type of Ramsay MacDonald, who brought a real cultural background to the post of Premier...
...temporary funeral of the Vice Consul, the American Church in Teheran was packed full. There were present the Serdar Sepah (Reza Khan), Premier of Persia, and members of his Cabinet, the Court Minister of Ceremonies, all the members of the Persian Parliament, representatives of all the foreign legations (except Russia) and most of the European colony. Mrs. Imbrie is to bring her husband's body back to the U. S. in the near future. Hundreds of arrests were made by the Persian police in connection with the murder...
Behold This Woman. Another picture of Hollywood, by Hollywood, for Hollywood. All points of interest in the story are seen as in real life, except, of course, the characters. It is good to know that they are only acting, for Irene Rich, as a sophisticated screen queen, breaks down in her car among the hills, drops in on Charles Post (as Stephen Strange-way, hillman), lets herself in for his strong-man love. He does not recover until there has been displayed a good deal of vamping, counter-vamping, and ancient details of the Hollywood "sugar-papa" system. The scenario...
...real prizefight has not yet been enacted on any American, French, German or Italian lyric stage. Except for a few halfhearted, ineffectual wrestling-passes, no U. S. operagoer has seen even a hint of its possibilities...
...already developed railroad, utility and industrial corporations whose resources have passed the billion-dollar mark, but, except temporarily, no American bank has until recently broken into the "billion-dollar class." Now, however, the National City Bank of New York, with resources of $1,027,000,000 in June 1924, has entered this field alone among our banking institutions...