Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director Catry, no fool, suspected trickery. After hanging up he waited a few moments, then called the Ministry of Interior. Meanwhile several dozen other Royalists had called all the Ministry's telephones except that in the booth. Therefore the call of Director Catry was switched to the only available phone, that at which stood the mimicker, who, for a second time, ordered M. Daudet's release, rebuked M. Catry...
...ancient maxim, Speak nothing about the Dead except good, was never more flatly disregarded than last week, in Paris, when M. Paul Valery, poet of severe Classicism, was received by the French Academy, amid pomp, and took the seat once occupied by that late famed trifler with life and words, M. Anatole France...
...duty of each member of the Academy, when he takes his seat, to pronounce an oration upon its previous occupant. Last week M. Valery said about the late "M. France" almost everything ". . . except good." Custom made it impossible to utter flatly derogatory statements; but Poet Valery said, with heavy sarcasm...
...Three divisions of the year (months, quarters and half years) are of unequal length. Months vary from 28 to 31 days in length, quarters from 90 to 92 days, half years from 181 to 184 days. 2) The month is not an even multiple of the seven-day week. Except for February each month contains four weeks plus two or three days. For 1927, January, April, July, October and December have five Saturdays, other months but four. Day names and dates change each month. 3) The calendar is not fixed; it changes each year. Because the ordinary year...
...women students to 620, being a ratio of one woman to four men. Among those voting for the limitation of Oxonian women was the suave Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary for India, who once said to Lady Margaret Haig Rhondda:† "Madam, I would be delighted to meet you anywhere except in the House of Lords...