Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this happy event with the utmost dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown and of local society, then a reception for the rest of town and gown deemed eligible to meet a genuine prince. Nothing was overlooked except that the committee neglected to ascertain that the Prince's hobby was paleobotany - of all things. When the train arrived His Royal Highness eagerly scanned the welcoming brass-hats and demanded "Where is Dr. Wieland?" Consternation smote the party and a frantic search for Yale's forgotten...
...With the exception of ponderous William Howard Taft, who covered 114,000 miles during his four years in the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has probably done more roadwork than any President in U. S. history. Up to last week, the Roosevelt mileage at home and abroad since 1933, totaled roughly 104,000. Last week appeared the likelihood of a trip that would considerably increase his mileage. Washington rumor for the past month has murmured that the President planned a cross country jaunt to Seattle, ostensibly to visit his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger. Last...
...develop a routine of their own. Since a few correspondents individually could not gather enough news, they have learned to cooperate. Whether at the Novelti bar in Rightist Salamanca or in the cafes of Madrid, reporters now congregate to exchange news if any. There is news aplenty, but except for a pushover job, such as the taking of Santander, the correspondents are kept a good eagle's flight away. In the recent heavy fighting around Madrid and in the big push now under way in the Aragon front, both the Rightists and the Leftists were in agreement that correspondents...
...Rooms in dormitories ready for occupancy. Except for Freshman football practice, which will begin at 2:30 o'clock on Friday, September 24, there will be no College appointments before registration...
Having filled a good-sized book with observations on personnel problems, Chinese face-saving, food, business etiquet, chiseling, the role of witch-doctors in business, the vagaries of U. S. export managers, and whatever else was at hand except a statement of profits, Author Crow gently implies that although the Chinese birth rate is approximately one a minute, it consists of a remarkably small number of suckers...