Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the week end the Coolidges cruised on the Mayflower, without guests except for the Stearns' and Mrs. Arthur Capper, wife of the Senator from Kansas...
That evening a special train, carrying the body, left with Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, John Coolidge, their other son, the members of the Cabinet (except Messrs. Hoover, in California, and Mellon, abroad), Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, the President's Secretaries and aides. At Northampton the next morning, church services were held. Colonel Coolidge and Mrs. Andrew Goodhue, grandparents of the dead boy, joined the funeral party there. Services were equally simple and brief, as in the former ceremony, of only about one-half hour's duration...
...Bryan is not an advocate of Government ownership. Says he: "I am not in favor of Federal, State or Municipal ownership of anything except natural resources, such as water; but when business combinations, particularly utilities and those supplying vitally necessary products, defy all authority and endeavor to mulct the public, then I think that the Government should sternly repress them, using whatever means may be most efficient...
Assembled upon this field of sad memories were half a million souls. Red officers and soldiers in many uniforms; workers in white and blue blouses; Communist athletes, male and female, the former naked except for a pair of trunks, the latter clothed in white shirts and short blue knickers; English Communists from the Clyde, dressed in sombre Sunday-go-to-meeting garments; Communist boys and girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue...
Hitherto, such reservation has not been technically permitted by the Anglican Church, except for subsequent use by the sick or dying. It is, henceforth, permitted not only for the sick but also for the purpose of adoration by believers...