Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...married one of Dick Nixon's closest friends, Los Angeles Magazine Distributor Jack Drown). Says Helene Drown: "You take a woman as young and beautiful as Pat Ryan was then, and put her in with a faculty of older women, and you've got almost certain trouble. Except that with Pat it didn't work out that way. All the older teachers loved her. I think one of the reasons for that was that she arranged it so that they would always be in the forefront of faculty and P.T.A. functions, and things like that. When they...
...Except for listeners to the BBC's Home Service, which had just launched into Cesar Franck's tired Symphony in D Minor, decided not to interrupt it, and held back the news for 35 minutes...
Playwright Arthur Miller, husband of Cinemorsel Marilyn (Some Like It Hot) Monroe, wished aloud that the public would pay more attention to her lines and less to her curves. Said he: "She would not have lasted so long except for her genuine acting ability." As a case in point, he referred to Marilyn's forthcoming stardom in a Nevada-made movie titled The Misfit, written especially for her by Playwright Miller. "When this film is finished, everyone will recognize my wife's ability...
Nonetheless, they anticipate his return to destroy all religions except the Mandaean...
...when business picked up. Thus, he had not been able to save anywhere near enough money for a major stock purchase. "I had to borrow to pick up those options," said he. "A fellow in my position under the tax laws is not in a position to buy stock except by borrowing." Romney borrowed enough money to buy 20,500 shares, leaving 14,500 shares still to go. At that it was a gamble: with American Motors' spotty dividend record, the carrying charges on a big loan could be a sizable expense. As American Motors moved ahead, Romney...