Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more time to stabilizing the U. S. financial structure than to Europe's. It was in this capacity that President Hoover asked him to go down for two of the post-stock-crash Confidence Conferences. Mr. Young went, of course. He has never refused Herbert Hoover anything except, in 1928, his vote. He would hate to refuse Herbert Hoover anything and Mr. Hoover knows it. Regardless of what the Democrats do to make or unmake Mr. Young as presidential timber, it is unlikely that President Hoover needs to worry. He is probably the last Republican, as a person...
What could be more appropriate? The Nationalists are in effect the Irish of India ?except that they lack Irish brawn and Irish humor. They quarrel among themselves like Irishmen...
...draws himself up and says with flashing eye: "When you call me that, smile." If you have not read the book or seen one of the plays or pictures made from it for some time you will be surprised to find that The Virginian would be a typical western except that it is less energetic and far better bred than most westerns-a nice library arrangement of the earnest hero, the fragile heroine, the cattle-rustling, halfbreed badman. Around these puppets the beautiful photography is like a shell on whose glazed surface you can see reflected the arch...
...North Pole to Nome, Alaska. Amundsen was killed two years ago trying to find hapless Umberto Nobile who had been wrecked with his Pole visiting semirigid Italia. Wilkins is now at Antarctica making occasional exploratory flights from Deception Island. Eielson was with him there last year, would have returned except that he had "to make some money." He said: "This exploring life is fascinating. But you can't live on glory when you get old." Managing Alaskan Airways was the opportunity he took...