Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interpreters could think of no provocation for Mussolini's sarcastic phrase "convivial vociferation," except the facts: 1) that Senator Pittman sometimes mixes good Bourbon with his statesmanship; 2) in December he abruptly announced...
...over. Except: >In Russia, the Bolsheviks fought the Whites and the Allies on a great wavering battle line that reached from Archangel to Vladivostok...
Tall, dashing John Anderson (Journal & American) is Broadway's supreme critic of bad plays, with a great gift for wise cracking down on them. ("[Jeremiah] may be entered ... as prophet and loss"; "Twenty years is a long time, except be tween wars.") Anderson was No. 1 Hellza-poppin-hater. Though murderous with fanciness and fake, he is sometimes too clever and cynical at the expense of a serious play...
This is the second in a series of articles attempting to present undergraduate reaction to the Student Council's report designed to abolish all minor and Junior Varsity (except football and crew) sports...
...Scribner's the outline of three Philo Vance detective stories. As S. S. Van Dine, Wright wrote serialized best-sellers for a decade, so obscured his earlier reputation that when his identity was revealed (by Bruce Gould, now co-editor of The Ladies' Home Journal) few people except literati remembered who Willard Huntington Wright...