Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it would stop our people from thinking in terms of francs and would abolish forever the present distressing comparison of salaries and prices with those of pre-War days. . . . The franc, even at par (19.3?) was a ridiculously small unit which never served any purpose except to complicate bills and infest columns with fractions. ... As for that mathematical microbe the centime ($.0004) it would have been discarded long ago if only someone had been able to reckon up the centuries wasted in counting such a monetary parasite...
...this, Agnes Maude Royden made a few brisk remarks: "Really," she said, "I don't think God has the time or the inclination to worry much about whether I smoke a cigaret or not. ... I am opposed to companionate marriage ... to any thing except permanent monogamy. . . . When a marriage has failed, divorce is the only solution." On top of this she rapidly repeated to her somewhat startled informants an apt parable to illustrate her point that religious bodies should not concern themselves with trifles. Then, tapping her chestnut stick at every step, she moved away...
Holliday is being held for observations, which are held every clear weekday evening from 8 to 10 o'clock. As a parting gift, the prisoner thrust upon the CRIMSON reporter the document reprinted below. Except for the fact that only one receipt is listed, against many disbursments, the paper might appear to be a personal cash account. Room at Hotel Woodstock $ 5.00 Telephoned home 12 times 11.30 Repairs to dignity (especially trousers) 6.50 Taxi to Ferroni's 2.10 Refreshments at Ferroni's 20.00 A6. A8, Booth Theatre 17.00 Taxi to Booth Theatre 3.20 Lady in A4, Booth Theatre (settled...
Perhaps there is a weakness in the Harvard man as a democrat, by a repressed desire for the attentions of body servants. The Yale Toaster guaranteed not to burn the bread, realized it when he said that a Harvard man never sees his janitor except when he comes home in the morning to find him shining his shoes. But if he never sees his janitor and tasted disappointment in the dormitory hotel, which never know a luxurious fulfillment, Massachusetts Avenue still provides him with compensations. One regrats that McKinlock denied the Englishmen acquaintance with those knights in shining armor...
...Owners of buildings on the Champs Elysées will remove promptly from their roofs all electric signs except such as may advertise goods actually on sale in the premises over which a given sign is erected...