Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Breaking even in the singles matches but capturing two out of the three foursomes the University golf team won a 5 to 4 victory over Yale at the Rhode Island Country Club, Providence, yesterday afternoon. Except for the Intercollegiates June 20, this concludes the 1922 season...
Scoring four runs in both the second and fourth innings and knocking out two circuit hits, the second University baseball team downed Westbrook Seminary yesterday afternoon to the tune of 11 to 4. The visitors made seven hits off Young but except for the fifth inning were never dangerous...
...plain citizen" sums up the effectiveness of the story, which raises it above the run of its kind. Except for one or two stock figures, the story is about "plain citizens", among them a fascinating child in a "bunny suit", developed by excellent touches of characterization and woven into a narrative that so closely parallels real life that one finds one's self, more than once, experiencing the same reactions as the characters. The style is especially smooth flowing, and enlivened with sparkling glances of natural humor and keen appreciation of situation...
...long been a matter of dispute as to whether the enormity of the crime has a great deal to do with the excitement attending its unraveling. In other words, is the dramatizatin of a murder-except for the added increment of horror-really any more enthralling than-as in the case of "Raffles "-the story of a jewel thief? After seeing "Raffles", the Playgoer is inclined to think not. It is the primal situation of hunted and hunter that counts; whether the penalty be loss of life or merely loss of liberty is a minor matter. Of course in this...
From the outside it is difficult to determine the likely winner. Both papers are expert in their line, and we would be tempted to prophesy a drawn battle except for one thing, which we whisper to those readers who will incline their ears, to wit; we have it on very high authority that at least one of the publications is "slipping; slipping; slipping, right into the garbage pail." Who knows but both may slip in? In which case, perhaps some one will clamp...