Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American Grand Guignol. One might expect the French horror-plays, in view of the season's successful exploitation of all phases of sex perversion, to prove fascinating box-office material. Not so. Perhaps it is because the theatre is way down in one of the Greenwich Village nooks of inaccessibility; possibly because one-act plays do not sell in Manhattan; possibly, also, because the production is heavyhanded. In one play, a paralytic suddenly discovers he has the ability to strangle daughter-in-law, which he does with gusto. In another, choice Chinese diabolisms are dramatized. On the whole, there...
Three or four mayors or boards of aldermen have already forbidden the showing of Chaplin films in their municipalities because of the charges of immorality brought against him by his wife in her suit for divorce. If his wife proves her point we may not unreasonably expect such a procedure to be nation-wide...
...Nicaraguan revolution's cannot but increase the friction between Washington and Mexico. Relations are strained now. In a few months we may not unreasonably expect a glorious struggle to make the world safe for the Standard Oil Company...
...furnished by the graduate and undergraduate business student," said Professor Willits "The Wharton School is an undergraduate school of business primarily. We have a two year graduate course in which men enroll who have graduated from an Arts College, but our chief attention is devoted to those who expect to enter business life after four years of college work. In consequence we have to recognize in our curriculum not only the business subjects, but also those 'educational universals' which should be in the possession of every educated man. I have found many experiments being tried at the Harvard Business School...
...Right now, however, I am chiefly interested in old autographed books. I dearly love old names, and am coming over to Harvard next week to go through Widener and look at famous signatures. Paul Revere is my idea of the typical old Bostonian, but I expect to discover quite a few historic signatures. I must see the famous glass flowers too," she concluded knowingly. Miss Bainter unwrapped a gift while speaking. It proved to be a collection of old programs, one of which dated back to 1870. "When I announced that I was interested in anything ancient pertaining...