Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tail-of-the-ticket, Nominee Robinson will not wag the ticket. But he started wagging for it at once. "I expect to have a lot of fun along about September with my old friend, Charley Curtis," he said. "I reckon my trail
NAKED TRUTH-Clare Sheridan-Harpers ($5.00). Notorious Clare Sheridan has done some more autobiography, and has given it a title which implies all that a gossip-loving public has long been led to expect of her. But she lets them down. Chapter after chapter denies the gossip about her trip to Russia with Kamenev (Mme. K.'s jealousy counteracting her husband's hospitality), her visit to Kernel Pasha (another wife's jealousy interfering), her camping trip with Charlie Chaplin (the press descending on the fifth day to claim...
...very retiring disposition. Now I expect to make friends by the thousands from now on. I had disliked travel, avoided crowds and hated conventions, but Rotary is changing...
...mind: there must be learned men in the Universities of London, Birmingham and other great towns who could pit the two fairly against each other and declare a just result. English literature, of course, would not be the only match. There are many subjects in the curricula. Cambridge would expect to win the mathematics and the principal events in all sorts of "stinks." Oxford would count upon the Litterae humaniores. But there is no telling. It is very easy for good men to train too fine; and not a few of the best fall to "come off" in competition...
Said Governor Ritchie: "We should have a national conservatory, an opera sponsored by the U. S. government. . . . Music is the one international language. We have the right to expect every great national government to aid and nourish it, and every one does, save only the United States of America...