Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mellon, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, said, according to the published, uncontradicted version of his letter: "All our principal debtors are already receiving from Germany more than enough to pay their debts to the United States. . . ." Last week Mr. Mellon said he had written: "All our principal debtors except Great Britain are already, etc." The words "except Great Britain" had somehow been "inadvertently omitted...
...Pointed omission to kneel when all present knelt except himself while King Alfonso XIII was blessed by His Eminence Eustochio Cardinal Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville. Edward, conscious that the Church of England is Protestant, stood fumbling nervously with his hat throughout the ceremony...
...dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because of the difficulty of assembling 24 bishops...
...University's undefeated netmen added another victory to their record yesterday when they took the invading New York University team into camp by a score of 7-2. Except for E. Tarangioli, who played number three for the New Yorkers, the Crimson racquet men were everywhere supreme...
...whereof she writes, on both sides of the argument, and she writes with the vivacity and warmth of Irish blood reared "down South." None knows better than she the tragedy of good taste ruined by poor execution. She has labored over her execution until it is deft and capable except for the first-novelist's last fault, propping the characters up and making them expound the argument sometimes...