Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When La Guardia decided to retire after the war there was only one real candidate for mayor: General Bill O'Dwyer. But he refused to run except on his own terms. When Tammany and the borough bosses pressed him for promises of patronage, he went stubbornly off to California. He stayed there until they capitulated. He was elected by a landslide plurality of 685,000 votes...
...years since, he has retraced their footsteps everywhere in the New World except in Puerto Rico; last week the press of duties forced him to cancel a tramp-steamship trip on which he planned to go there...
...their welcoming speeches. Beneath the glassy eyes of movie and television cameras, a fully armored St. George charged in, precariously perched on a white horse that at first stubbornly refused to face the guest of honor. The cast also included 94 white pigeons which made their entrance on cue, except for six that were found later in the dean's bathroom...
...Roux brothers do not plan to sell equipment. They expect to rent lenses to producers and moviehouses, hope to have all France supplied in two years. Except for a few first-run moviehouses in major cities, the U.S. will have to wait its turn...
Simply Dreadful. Miss Madeira, one of Washington's last New Dealers, thinks it "simply dreadful" that most of her students must come from "economic royalist" families.* Returning from vacation, the daughter of a West Virginia mine operator once told the headmistress: "My father likes everything about your school except your ideas...