Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...conversation is the same in Paris as in New York and in London, i.e., how stupid, how inane everyone (themselves included) is, except the enemy. People forget that this is part of war, or of any struggle. In an English election it is always the opponent who has the clever, brilliant, shrewd though wicked leaders and supporters. One's own side, though good intentioned up to a point, is criminally negligent, dense, ill-starred, hopeless...
...Forbade withdrawals or transfers of Danish and Norwegian gold stocks, cash balances, credits in the U. S. (see p. 79), except by permission of the Treasury Department. Object: to keep from Adolf Hitler 1) $20,000,000 in Export-Import Bank credits recently granted Denmark and Norway; 2) private moneys, credits and goods whose Scandinavian owners might be forced to disgorge to the Nazis...
That night and next morning, German expeditionary forces steamed into Narvik, Trondheim, Stavanger, Bergen, Oslo. At Narvik German destroyers coming in through a snowstorm sank two old Norse coast defense ships at their moorings and one armed British ship, before they could fire a shot. At all other ports except Oslo and Kristiansand, landings were made without fighting...
...Denmark in his darkest hour, while German lorries, tanks, airplanes and 50,000 soldiers swarmed over his little land last week to bring it "protection from the Allies." Almost to a man the Danes did as bid, laying aside their arms, getting on with their work as usual-all except the guard at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen, never before invaded by foreign troops. The guards led by Count Valdemar, deemed it their duty to challenge the grey juggernaut as it entered the palace courtyard...
...record is the more remarkable in that Evans tackled Shakespeare the hard way. Instead of giving audiences the usual chestnuts, he chose Henry IV, Part I, which (except for a one-week Players revival) had not been produced on Broadway for 44 years; Richard II, which had not been produced on Broadway for 60; and an uncut Hamlet which had never been produced on Broadway...