Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...July had shifted to "Bungling in Korea," a topic that lost its appeal when the tide turned in Korea. Though Senator Joe McCarthy had received more invitations to speak for G.O.P. candidates all over the U.S. than all other Senators combined, the issue of Reds in Government had waned (except in Joe McCarthy's home state), and some Republicans were nervously wondering whether it might yet boomerang. Rising prices and taxes bothered most people, but not even the smartest politicians could make out whom the voters blamed. The Republicans were left with the traditional war cry of opposition: "Throw...
...comedy in seven years by the author of Aren't We All?, Spring Cleaning and The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Lonsdale still favors the drawing room, in this case a ducal one. But in this case the Duke of Bristol and all his clan are stony broke, and-except for industrious Gerard-indolent, incompetent and alcoholic. A young American heiress to $10 million (Beatrice Pearson) wanders in off the road with pneumonia, falls madly in love with Gerard (Ralph Michael), and he with her. But Gerard won't marry money and Mary can't live without...
Coach Eddie Casey faced a similar problem in 1932. He benched all his regular starting backfield except his quarterback and then watched his offense bog down. Holy Cross was within the Crimson ten yard line three times but was unable to score. Finally Harvard made good its one scoring opportunity in the fourth quarter...
...dormitories are concerned, female visitors are out. It is positively forbidden to bring ladies, even mothers and sisters, to the rooms or corridors of the dormitory buildings. Except on special occasions, only one room on the entire campus--the lounge of Fenwick Hall, the administration building--is not off limits to the female guest...
...Posket in question is the magistrate in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's "The Magistrate." He is a man of some consequence who has just married a widow during a three-week recess from court. This would be all right, except for the fact that the good lady has lopped five years off her age in order to capture him. This simple subterfuge, in turn, would pass safely, but for the fact that she has had to reduce reduce her son's age by five years, too, in order to maintain the ruse...