Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible that you could expect any dog fancier to subscribe for or advertise in a magazine that could countenance or publish such an ignorant, derisive, misleading article as appeared in your SPORT column, Feb. 27 issue, under the caption of "Putting...
...have been a member of the much abused Klan for years, and I expect to be a member as long as I live and the need for such an organization in these United States exists. I have never received any financial benefit from my membership; on the contrary it has cost me a considerable sum to attend the various meetings, etc. The only benefit received by myself has been the strengthening of my patriotism, my love of Country...
...know your religious affiliations, nor do I care about them. But, I do know that you are grossly mistaken in the article above referred to. The name of the organization has not been changed, and I never expect to see it changed. The Klan is simply following the course originally planned for it-but you and the likes of you, through ignorance or prejudice are trying to kill an undying organization of American born white citizens, who are as much entitled to organize as any other block of people in the Country, and certainly more so than...
...more violent or sportive Klansmen to undertake. The joy of mystifying others is a great incentive to such blood-and-thunder tricks. The pleasure of seeing one's deeds acknowledged, even anonymously, and of causing annoyance and perhaps anxiety appeals to some. All in all, it is illogical to expect any bombs or poisoned daggers; in spite of which, the Liberal Club is enabled to uphold its reputation for the unexpected...
WRITTEN in a biographical age notable chiefly for its iconoclasm, "Kit Carson" is just the sort of book one would expect from a former Rhodes Scholar, a native of the West, and a faculty member of the University of Oklahoma. Stanley Vestal takes all that is laudable in the modern method of biography--its colloquial style, eye for the dramatic, disrespect for mythology and Thompsonesque patriotism without falling into the pitfalls typical of tabloid research and the worship of sex appeal...