Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commander Dimutriscu radioed: "His Royal Highness is quite all right except that he is seasick." Soon the Commander reported that large floating blocks of ice, whipped by a howling gale, had "decommissioned the rudder...
...sense of translation to a better world. One cause of this is undoubtedly the house itself, with its flowing lines and receptiveness to the landscape. Another is undoubtedly the house's builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there can be little...
...others were lost in the World War-the rest, except for the Graf Zeppelin and the decommissioned Los Angeles at Lakehurst. were dismantled or forfeited to the Allies...
...John the Baptist of a new Western civilization." On that trip hostesses received printed instructions on how to entertain the worldly prophet: 1) rooms should be cool; 2) a supper should be served after each lecture; 3) champagne should be provided; 4) oysters should be served, but no vegetables except mashed potatoes; 5) pretty young women should be present. Due to arrive in Manhattan by New Year's Day, for another tour, big, broad-shouldered, bearded Count Keyserling unexpectedly canceled his trip. To disappointed hostesses he wrote mysteriously that he was stricken, that the greatest tragedy of his life...
...second half, more heavily documented, is slower going. Here, except for a brilliant account of U. S. town-building, Miriam Beard's contribution is to compare the achievements of Vanderbilt, Gould, Morgan, Rockefeller with those of Fugger, Colbert, or the Bickers of Holland; to measure familiar swindles and honest accomplishments against ancient examples. U. S. millionaires compare well in both respects with their predecessors. Squelched at first by the landed gentry, then by Southern aristocrats, U. S. businessmen wielded their power openly only for a brief period after the Civil War, until their corporations grew so vast that "like...