Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satire is never quite so sophisticated and lewd as the puerile effusions of the flapperish Cleopatra whose acquaintance we make in perusing the "Diary." She boldly describes her appearance in Rome as the public mistress of Caesar and forthwith begins to criticize Rome, Caesar, and every one else except Antony and a few other of the Roman jeunesse doree whose appetites for wine and illicit love are as strong as hers. Her philosophy is Hedonistic; she proclaims herself a sensualist and not satisfied with the fast pace of the Romans she attempts to outdistance them. It is very plain that...
...student feeling toward a University dining hall has been taken as the final criterion of the lack of present interest in the project. On May 26 3000 pledge cards were sent out to all members of the three lower classes in the college and to all graduate students except those in the Business and Medical Schools. So far only 125 of these cards have been returned with signatures of men willing to eat in the proposed dining hall. This number falls far short of the 500 figure set by President Lowell as a necessary preliminary to the erection...
England and France, given former Turk lands in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, have pushed the frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally...
...challenge makes seven recommendations in all, most of which deal with the problem of preserving the absolutely amateur character of the games. The Harvard-Yale team as it was finally formulated consisted of 17 competitors, two men being taken for each event except the mile and three mile for both of which only three competitors were chosen...
Here he can see the time-wasting fatuousness of congress, except in rare moments when driven by a vigorous personality; here he can see the president steering his middle course and saying nothing; here he can see underpaid clerks swarming from the grimy and red taped government departments; here he can see overpaid members of the now countless federal commissions making self satisfied and often irresponsible decisions reaching into the every day lives of the plain people of the land; here, in fine, he can delight his eyes with the foreign diplomats and the "dancing boys of the state department...