Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that since God watches the fall of the merest sparorw, surely He will keep an eye on the Thomas's, the central family of the play. He does, more or less, but He takes it off frequently enough to let them get into predicaments that would be very desperate, except that no one, particularly no one in the audience, cares very much anyway...
Minus the smooth illustrations, the Post stories that hold up best are those in which the authors throw probability to the winds, along with romance and deep thoughts, and go in for straight, oldfashioned, O. Henry farce. Except for the humorous stories and the tales of Thomas Wolfe and Walter Edmonds, main impression communicated by Post Stories of 1937 is one of uniformity, as if the 22 stories and the 479 closely-printed pages had all been cut to pattern by the same expert, precise, unexcited writer...
...until three freights and two passenger trains were stalled at one station. His growing sons cured him of that; he worked his way back to respectability as a brakeman on the Union Pacific, retired on his pension of one dollar a day. Humorless in its domestic episodes, woodenly written except for pages of authentic railroad talk, Railroadman is nevertheless a first-rate U. S. document, the best picture going of an old-time rank & file member of the powerful Railroad Brotherhoods...
First stop in the development of the Debating Council's plan of Inter-House debating for 1938-1939 is today's request that all undergraduates, except Seniors, interested in the proposed plan register at the House Dining Halls or the Union today at lunch or dinner or Wednesday at lunch...
Besides Lupien, catcher Paul Doyle and second baseman Dave Shean garnered three hits apiece. Shortstop Dick Grondahl drove out two base knocks in three attempts, and all the other Mitchellmen, even the light-hitting Curtiss, get one safe blow, except Rud Hoye. Centerfielder Gannett and left-fielder Jo Jo Soltz smacked doubles. Two of Doyle's hits were two-base affairs...