Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Bridges, shocked of hair, bestubbled of beard, was appointed Poet Laureate† by King George in 1913, thereby disappointing, if not enraging, a vast horde of Kiplingites throughout the Commonwealth; for Dr. Bridges, despite his four university degrees, was unknown, except to a small but influential circle of admirers...
...Blackshirts of all Italy!" Thus began a proclamation of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome, Oct. 28, 1922. In accordance with the Prime Minister's recent decision, th«re was no public holiday-all Italy worked, except a few athletes who gave a demonstration in Rome. The real celebration, staged with the usual vigorous splendor, marchings with flags, flamboyant rhetoric, was held two days later, on a Sunday...
...street by an extraordinarily goodlooking young woman. She had invited him to dine and presumably to wine. He accepted the invitation. . . . Next morning, the valet continued, he woke up with a bad headache to discover that the correspondence, including his own, was gone. His letters were subsequently returned, except one which contained the names of people who had visited the Prince at his Orne Villa...
Profoundest silence lay over all Turkey like a pall of death. Not a train ran. Not a boat sailed. Not an airplane flew. Not a factory hummed. Not a siren shrieked, nor a whistle blew. Men neither toiled nor did they sweat. In the cities the streets were deserted, except for a privileged few. Street cars did not run, shops were closed, automobiles were garaged. From Constantinople at the Golden Horn, along the length of the Bosporus, flanked by its minarets and white domes, diurnal scene of a thousand scurrying ships, all was silent as the graveyard...
Science congratulated newspapers in general for giving more attention to the subject than they used to give. Science, unscientific, failed to indicate that the above column-inches, except insofar as they show a great advance in mass column inches over five years ago, are not a true indication of the respective papers' interest in the subject. For example the voluminous Times may be proportionately less interested in a story than is the slimmer World, and yet print twice as many column-inches...