Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exclusive "public" (i. e., private) school, today is on the defensive, abroad as well as at home. Traditional training ground for Britain's ruling "Gentlemen," it has produced ten Prime Ministers. One-sixth of the members of Commons are old Etonians. But in trade and government service, everywhere, except in Britain's Foreign Office, Etonians are being shouldered out by the products of more plebeian schools. Even those who cherish Eton's traditions most tenderly admit that Eton needs some reforms. A few have been introduced by Eton's new (since 1933) headmaster, Claude Aurelius...
...many ways Eton is more modern than newer schools. Discipline (except for shirking studies) and games are almost entirely in the students' hands. The members of Pop and of "The Library," elect their own successors, make rules, impose punishment. Fagging (running errands and making tea for their elders) humbles young aristocrats...
...aseptic, dustless, reflectionless hideaway is by a spiral staircase from an anteroom on the floor below. Only scientists particularly interested in fractioning life to its lowest common denominators may mount that spiral. And all must wash their hands and faces, put on gowns and hoods of black cloth-all except the master of this pure and dark domain, master of its purified and black-clad servants. He, the most famed member of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Alexis Carrel, distinguishes himself from the others with a little white headpiece that looks like the hat of a U. S. bluejacket...
Silly is its plot, silly the Victorian primness that made the plot possible. Briefly, two young ladies get each other's dance bouquets by mistake, thereupon pine and languish in silence (except for eight or ten solos and duets) along with the tongue-tied swains who sent them. Although first-nighters felt now & then that they were being sprayed with charm as though from an atomizer, much of the time The Two Bouquets saved itself by being smartly paced, lightly keyed, freshly mounted...
...expired it would no longer have its monopoly, began buying up power, tremendous amounts of which are needed in making aluminum. A sample arrangement, according to Lawyer Rice, was that with Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power & Manufacturing Co. by which it agreed not to sell power to anyone making aluminum except Alcoa; cryolite, too, is needed and Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. had a monopoly there, so Alcoa made a contract with Pennsylvania Salt...