Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From his home in Albuquerque, to which he eventually retired, Faris kept a watchful eye on his old friends. Last fall they came to him with a new sort of problem. Gas and oil had been discovered on their land, and they could soon expect to have $7,000,000 in royalties to spend. Last week, on the advice of Nonagenarian Faris, the Tribal Council deposited in the First National Bank of Albuquerque $1,000,000 in a special trust to ensure the tribe's future. The $40,000-a-year income it produces will be used as school...
...frighteningly detailed knowledge of gardening. Her quirks are perfectly accounted for in the last act, when her background is exposed and the play's pseudoallegorical meaning underlined. Laurel, the 13-year-old girl in the house, is impetuous, over-self-conscious, and neurotic in just the way one would expect from her family background. As she herself says, "My case is in Freud." Dominating the household is Laurel's grandmother, Mrs. St. Maugham, who typifies a way of life that is aristocratic, self-indulgent, warped, and gone forever. Her eccentricities, together with those of the Charles Addamsish butler...
...Shaw, always a canny man with a shilling, would have appreciated more vividly the coarser tribute of the money that is pouring into Lady's clinking till. Tickets are almost impossible to get; scalpers demand as much as $50 for choice seats. Overall, Fair Lady's producers expect to gross some $5,000,000 (including $5,000 a week for Harrison) on their $401,000 production, and the Columbia LP record of the songs should gross at least another...
...congregation at midnight to watch him walk alone into the dark church. It did not end the crisis, but it helped. "They are gradually coming back," he said this week. "But when I preach, their eyes wander all the time to the broken pulpit as though they expect to see Tikoloshe suddenly jump out. With God's help I shall get back my church and my people...
Warning summer school students who are not familiar with the Cambridge parking regulations, Breen said that "persistent violators and those who do not respond to traffic tickets can expect to have their cars towed away." He also pointed out that the police kept the license numbers of out-of-state violators on file "for future reference...