Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quote from your article on Professor Conklin: "On the radio he listens to practically nothing except Comedian Eddie Cantor...
...international conferences, and at Geneva, London, Locarno and other diplomatic stamping grounds, everyone except the French described the young Italian as "dynamic," "charming," "electric," and "captivating." While Il Duce thundered about Mare Nostrum and armed Italy as fast as he could, Diplomat Grandi talked disarmament and assured the world of Italy's peaceful intentions. With the French, rulers of the Geneva roost, he engaged in a never-ending fight for prestige. At the height of his career as Foreign Minister he paid a goodwill visit to the U. S. and chatted amiably with President Hoover and Secretary of State...
...heat of midsummer many strange notions pop into people's heads. Last week one Clarence Giles, a 220-lb., 41-year-old Montana livestock auctioneer, took a notion to swim nonstop down the Yellowstone River from Billings to Glendive-288 miles-for no apparent reason except to see his name in the papers and put his hometown of Glendive...
...Except for Philadelphia's Citizens & Southern Bank & Trust Co. (assets $739,383) all N. N. B. A. banks are in the South. Largest is the Mechanics & Farmers Bank of Durham, N. C. (assets $1,354,000). Oldest is the Citizens Savings Bank & Trust Co. of Nashville (assets $584,000), founded...
...Except that it was held amidst the distracting beauties of San Francisco, last week's 77th annual meeting of the National Education Association was a typical coldwater convention. Thanks to the delights of Treasure Island, the incidental joys of cable-cars, Chinatown and the city's justly-famed cool weather, few delegates even bothered to attend the meetings-though smart pressagentry managed to fill the Opera House for one series of dull speeches. As usual, the convention delivered itself of some earnest "Whereas-es" and "Be-it-resolveds"; this time they were in favor of democracy...