Word: expect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make the movement a success. An older person can hardly read this program without being impressed by the knowledge of the situation in higher education that exists in the United States today and by the good judgment shown in the selection of topics upon which you might justly expect to have an influence in bringing about reforms...
...regard to the success of the first touch football season and the future possibilities of the sport at the University, M. A. Cheek, Jr., '26, who directed the activity this fall, stated yesterday "I expect that twice as many teams will sign up for touch football next year as reported this season. The league will have to be organized earlier and will require enlarged playing facilities...
...qualified for the Presidency and the fact that he is not in sympathy with the 18th Amendment and is a Catholic should not disqualify him. It is my calm, deliberate judgment that Smith would not lose a single Southern State. ... I have no further po litical ambitions, but I expect to take an active part in the move ment to nominate Al Smith...
...those individuals from whom Charlestonians had learned to expect misery-a "dark" Chantrell, like her twin brother, Stephen. In him their hot strain from a Latin ancestor was provided with a safety outlet; his temper could boil over. Cordelia was mistress of her intensities, to her great misfortune, and it was she who resolved a grave dilemma into happiness for Stephen and tragedy for herself, tragedy punctuated by two pistol shots...
...HOUSE OF SIMPLICITY- Ethel Davis Seal-Century ($3). Let the reader ignore just what he might expect to find in such a book, namely a gushing stream of female adjectives like "quaint," "gay," "charming," "piquant," "tiny," "dear," "darling," "lovely," "thrilling," "adorable," -and here is a very good book indeed for discovering a myriad handy ways and inexpensive means of accomplishing effects in interior decoration, to which the overworked adjectives listed above are perhaps irresistibly applicable. There is, of course, a heart-rending chapter on "Antiques for a Song," consisting largely of anecdotes, but there is also a cheerful chapter, highly...