Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong's captain and crew. O'Brien, who was once a ship's engineer, may get a paying berth aboard the ferry if a vacancy occurs. The ship went into drydock for its annual overhaul; O'Brien obligingly supervised the repairs. "Since I expect to be on this tub for some time yet." he said last week, "I want her to be seaworthy...
Hollywood's home-grown characters got notice that they could expect some first-rate competition from abroad. Dame Edith Sitwell, 65, poet-historian-lecturer sister of Sir Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, held an audience for reporters in London and announced that she was off to California to write the screen play of her book Fanfare For Elizabeth (about Anne Boleyn and young Elizabeth). Said she: "My first scene will be most appallingly morbid. It almost frightens me. The story opens in London. Murder hovers around, and there will be an absolutely superb scene in the hospital for leprous virgins...
...length of the book is undetermined, but the two men are working on alternate chapters. They expect to have seven or eight factual chapters and at least an equal number for evaluation of the facts...
...master, a Renoir or possibly a Picasso. To help raise the money, Rock Springs went to a carnival at the high school, watched a water show, played bingo and had its fortune told. The party netted $1,000. With $400 already in the kitty, Halseth and Rock Springs now expect to go shopping. Says Halseth: "People here used to say 'get a photograph' the way they said 'get a horse,' when cars came out. They couldn't understand spending money for pictures. But now the paintings are there, and the kids can look at them...
...bank money. The realtors were all in favor of FHA and veteran loan guarantees, but they thought that interest rates should be set on a flexible, regional basis rather than one rate across the nation. Said Atlanta Realtor Henry H. Robinson: if VA interest rates were allowed to rise, "Expect a terrific boom in G.I. home construction...