Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people expect him to win. He is an outsider compared with Dawes and an unknown compared with Hoover. But he will go to the Republican convention with a block of fifty votes, and in a free-for-all convention wonders have been worked with less than fifty votes by other dark-horse Senators. First man in the field to declare himself for his party's nomination, spokesman of a large section of the Middle West, regular of regulars, and despite this fact the farmer's friend, fashioned by Heaven's hand as the perfect politician--this is Curtis of Kansas...
...which this nation has ever been afflicted."* At Denver it was "the snoopers and spies . . . like the lice of Egypt"-an anti-Prohibition speech (Denver being wet). The League of Nations took a lashing, too, as the Angel of Vengeance passed on to Albuquerque. Here he said: "I expect someone to say that 'Reed is merely destructive; he wants to destroy existing conditions.' Of course! Every time you want to change anything you must alter or destroy existing conditions." Then he set up the Republican "crooks, grafters and scoundrels" again and once more flailed them down. Large audiences...
...estimable qualities of stage technique-loud clowning, eccentric costuming, futuristic scenery, boisterous laughter from the actors on the stage-which they, in hypersensitive hauteur, sometimes distrust. As soon as the curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious but bitterly satiric story of a scalawag physician who buys a country practice and makes it pay huge profits on the principle that, if people think they...
Drastic, that is, if the reactionary upperclassmen can enforce it. One wonders if they themselves really expect...
...education is now to be commensurate with the cost of living, the University will become in a measure more self-reliant. None of the increase is to be used for aiding the program of expansion territorially but will be turned to the service of instruction, for one may expect that the opportunities for research will be increased by additions to the teaching staff, which should itself profit materially from the change...