Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visit. Franklin Roosevelt warned the press not to go "out on a limb" by predicting Dr. Frankfurter's appointment to the Supreme Court: this was just the Frankfurters' "annual visit." Staying off the limb, some observers wondered whether Host Roosevelt was perhaps explaining to faithful (except on the Court Plan) Felix Frankfurter why he could not be appointed...
...latest reports the Slovak-Hungarian parley at Komarno had given Budapest no territory except the town of Ipolysag and the Slovak portion of Satoraljaujhely on the border. Hungary was asking 6,000 square miles with a population of 1,200,000 but was apparently getting no backing in this demand from Germany...
...Confraternity appointed 21 Catholic theologians to revise the Douay-Reims Bible. A sample of their work, the Gospel according to St. John, was circulated among last week's Catechetical Congress. Chief innovations: it omits all archaic word forms except thee, thou, thine; does not capitalize the pronouns referring to Jesus Christ; arranges the text by paragraphs, not by numbered verses. Typical revisions: "desert" for "wilderness" in the passage I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness; "wine" for "vinegar" in the description of the last moments of Christ on the Cross...
...tribe in the act of building a skyscraper bridge out of rope vines. They also went on an elephant hunt without failing to photograph the finish, and escaped from a forest fire which was obviously genuine. These and similar exploits would by themselves be enough to make Dark Rapture, except for its title, a model for pictures of its type. In addition, Explorer Denis pickled his adventures in some of the most beautiful landscape photography ever recorded on film, used native music as the basis for a brilliant accompanying score and furnished an announcer, John Martin, who gives a running...
...Dorothy is such a dunce that an incredibly handsome actress would be necessary to explain her hold on Philip; big scenes-like the shooting of a captured German officer-take place off stage; and all Philip's long explanations of his reasons for aiding the Loyalists prove nothing except that he is not clear about it himself...