Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times's founder. Shareholder Astor of the English branch of the Astor family, bought the holdings of the late Viscount Northcliffe 15 years ago. To insure that no unworthy shall gain control of the Times, no transfer of common shares by a living holder to anyone except Owners Astor and Walter can be made without approval from an austere committee whose members are the Speaker of the House of Commons, Governor of the Bank of England, Warden of All Souls, Oxford, Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice, Headmaster of Eton College...
...zoologist, Helen Dean King, who has been conducting rat breeding experiments since 1909, has every mutation of white or wild gray rat except a yellow rat with dark red eyes, which she expects to obtain this week...
...During the war. a woman made application to pass through his lines into the Confederacy, with her family, household effects and a Negro child. The application reached General Wistar marked "Approved except as respects the Negro child." Wistar wrote on it ''approved, including the Negro, since such a child if left behind and separated from its natural protectors, would require dry nursing, for which I possess no soldiers properly fitted...
Last week the cast, which now includes only three of its charter members, gave its 1,716th performance, then celebrated at a dinner the end of Tobacco Road's fourth year. It had already run longer than any other play in Broadway's history except Abie's Irish Rose (2,532 performances); its net profits were over half a million...
...Nile (TIME, Feb. 22), Cleopatra adds no new data to the little there is to go on: three lines from a letter of Antony's, one authentic bust. But Author Ludwig reopens the 2,000-year-old Cleopatra Case on the grounds that all contemporary evidence, except Plutarch's incomplete account, was only frenzied, made-in-Rome propaganda. His "new" evidence was dug out of a "psychological" investigation. And Author Ludwig does succeed in presenting a Cleopatra who, as Queen of Egypt, Cyprus and Syria, deserves something better than her reputation as a sort of Oriental Mae West...