Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...projected sales tax would impose a levy of three per cent on all items except food, medicines, children's clothing, rents, light, heat, gas, telephone, and other utilities...
...alternative, he suggests, is to build a relatively inexpensive separate center which will provide common rooms, conference rooms, quarters for a resident Master and all the other usual facilities of a House, except individual bedrooms...
...good to see Mother lose her head once in a while, even when it's as unenthusiastically as she does in the Winter Issue over Juan M. Alonso's The Death of Don Juan. The play, except for a short piece by John Ratte, comprises the entire number, and seems to be a very honest and ambitious attempt. But Mother won't admit she likes the play, which has qualities that even the most prudent might admire; she observes pontifically, "It is probably the only play of the past few years written by an undergraduate that has received any serious...
There's a story about an elderly lady who went to see Hamlet for the first time. She liked it all right, except that it was full of quotations. The Maltese Falcon may seem like that after many years of imitations, but it's still one of the finest detective stories ever filmed...
...were short or nonexistent. The only surplus was labor; Catini was saddled with 47,000 workers who by law could not be laid off. Carlo Faina, who headed Catini's Rome office, started out to rebuild the company. A cheery aristocrat who differs from Donegani in every respect except drive, he is the scion of a line that once ruled a large slice of Italy (said a medieval couplet: "From Roma to Perugia, it's all Faina"). After World War I. in which he got three decorations and was seriously wounded, he was hired through...