Word: expect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed, those writers who are so muddled by the mechanical multiplicity and confusion of existence as to be blind to the simple which is beneath all the confusion will never, can never expect to keep live in literature. The clever, and this is a generation of the clever, are too engrossed with surface delights to sense the bitterness or beauty of the depots. America is apparently devoid of the comic spirit. She must buffoon or burrow herself into the earth of realism. And buffoonery is not lasting. Mr. Sherman has illumined that fact many times with the light of common...
...fellows in Congress expect to be roasted, but you people in the Army are not used...
...present highly complicated situation in China, were disappointingly guarded. Keynotings-John V. A. MacMurray (U. S.) : "The Government of the United States is prepared to consider open-mindedly and generously any reasonable plan with a view to realizing China's aspirations"; Eki Hioki (Japan): "China can expect to reach her goal only by successive stages. . . .The granting of tariff autonomy presupposes a strong, unified Chinese Government"; Sir Ronald Macleay: "Great Britain is prepared to discuss tariff autonomy either at this conference or at a later...
...found a job and sufficient prospects for an early marriage. Enter the deacon with as smooth a piety as his legerdemain at cards. The audience, as the action proceeds to draw forth an unquestionably real and homely set of characters, is at a loss to know what to expect--melodrama, provincial comedy, middle Western still life, or a subtle dramatic tangle. The combination of all four is perhaps as shrewd an answer as one can hazard...
...presenting the problem as a detached problem, and in allowing the discussion to wander from the approach of the topic to the heart of his course, out into generalities. Of course, the professor will not be able, and should not try, to conceal his own views, but he should expect his colleagues to confer with him when it appears that harm may come from classroom discussion...