Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely. It will spread to the South, it will spread to the North. There is no chance of a speedy end except through united action, and if at any time Britain and France, wearying of the struggle, were to make a shameful peace, nothing would remain for the smaller States of Europe with their shipping and their possessions, nothing will remain but to be divided between the opposite, though similar, barbarisms of Nazidom and Bolshevism...
This left the Prime Minister sitting pretty except that a few Laborite backbenchers interjected occasional jeers. Said Laborite Josiah Clement Wedgwood: "There has been no denial of the prejudice felt in exalted circles against the holding of that post [War Secretary] by a man who was a Jew and who was the centre of the Goebbels propaganda. What circles got hold of the Prime Minister with these stories?" When Neville Chamberlain ignored this query, extreme Left Independent Laborite Jock McGovern jumped up and demanded: "Will the Prime Minister give a denial of that...
This contract states that the agreement applies to all dining hall and kitchen workers "except students in the University who are or may be employed therein as a means of enabling them to pay part of their expenses while studying at the University...
...Europe. Now, with his commercial program three times a week and daily breakfast-time and post-dinner broadcasts for CBS, he pockets $900 a week. Tall, well-proportioned and active-looking, Elmer Davis wears grey or pepper-&-salt suits to match his grey hair, looks very un-Elmer-like except for his invariable little black bow ties. Many consider him a dead ringer for handsome Hoosier Paul V. McNutt, but Elmer Davis, turning 50 last week, saw another resemblance. Said he: "Now people think I look more like Cordell Hull...
...Robinson. On the site where Mabel once "proceeded to startle, delight and dumfound the town," where she "caught men between the eyes, held them magnetized, fascinated, charmed, as men will be by the allure of a woman's lively calling essence" - nothing now remains to mark the spot except a gaping excavation...