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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Reason & Emotion | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...over. Except: >In Russia, the Bolsheviks fought the Whites and the Allies on a great wavering battle line that reached from Archangel to Vladivostok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: 1,063 Weeks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Makers & Breakers | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Express Opposite Views On Student Council's Athletic Report | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Monocled Journalist | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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