Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class Day Committee has lowered the price of tickets for the Class day events so that a Senior, undergraduate, or graduate can take in everything except the baseball game...
...third portrait is that of an Old Scotchman, seated at ease by his books. Raeburn has put personal character in every line, using strong lights and deep shadows and marked features. Detail work is avoided, except in the treatment of the head and of the books. Brushwork is done in the same manner, in crisp, bold planes. The result is a wise and kindly gentleman, painted with elegance and charm...
...music preserved to posterity in Franz Schubert's writing desk. For, although much of this music is available in popular editions, and all of it is printed in the standard editions of Schubert's Works, the great bulk of it is seldom or never performed except in Schubert's birthplace, Vienna...
...Prayer (Twentieth Century-Fox) demonstrates in brisk, British-cut, melodramatic fashion: 1) that the sun never sets on Producer Darryl F. Zanuck (Clive of India, The House of Rothschild, Lloyd's of London), and 2) that Producer Zanuck can excuse the world munitions ring for any atrocity except an affront to British family honor...
...snap at the Government. Tartest comment was provided by Chairman Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. When le blamed the New Deal for a 30% slump in National Lead business, a stockholder piped up to ask: "If you disagree with President Roosevelt, have you anything to offer except to go back to where we were?" Retorted Mr. Cornish: "When I get lost that is what I try to do-go back to where I started from...