Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able tutelage of his wife, Mr. Lewis' education has progressed to the point where he is familiar with Messrs Gladstone and Disraeli. I am also sure that he would certainly have given proper credit to the originator of the phrase, instead of palming it off as his own, except for the fact that like myself he cannot remember whether Gladstone said this of Disraeli or vice versa...
...shunned more consistently by professionals [than Connecticut]. . . . There is comparatively little fixing of Federal agents. . . . There are probably many honest coppers, but if so most of them are out in the sticks. . . . When the Eye (Pinkertons) are brought in ... that is bad. They don't think of anything except catching thieves...
...cinema are 100% controlled by the Soviet State and the Communist Party. No other party is permitted to exist. There is no opposition press. The new Constitution for the first time makes the vote of a peasant equal the vote of a townsman. No one may be nominated except at a meeting, the minutes of which must be signed by all the presiding officers and who will put his name to a paper which the Secret Police, after the election, could construe as evidence of a plot to nominate a "wrecker"? Latest dispatches indicated that nominating procedure, although the election...
Thus there seemed no reason to suppose last week that any candidate could be nominated, much less elected, unless he or she is openly and zealously for the Party and the State of Stalin, except in distant or rural communities where, from the point of view of Moscow, the whole political apparatus may have "got into the wrong hands"-say those of the pious...
...line reported one hundred per cent O. K. except of course for Russ Allen. The story in the backfield, however, was not so hopeful. Chief Boston's condition is still doubtful. Torbert Macdonald and Vernon Struck were both held out of any heavy work...