Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a fine exhibition of bad taste the "tycoons" of utilities displayed when Mr. McCarter proposed a toast "To the President of the United States!" as reported in your Dec. 23 issue. Makes me believe the old saying, "Expect nothing from a pig but a grunt," holds good...
...deep-seated ambition by being hardworking, meticulous, self-denying and an ardent Farmer-Laborite. Then Governor Olson made him State Securities Commissioner, later State Banking Commissioner. His appointment to the Senate last week gave him his cue, and he launched into the political theme song which fellow Senators may expect to hear whenever he speaks: "The reactionary elements of our country which have been lying dormant, biding their time, are again assembling their strength, closing their ranks for a decisive clash with Progress...
Hungary, Austria and Switzerland, impotent kittens, disclosed that the Lion had also asked their '"military aid'' as "a duty to the League," should Britain be attacked. The kittens, being the Fascist Eagle's immediate neighbors, announced that Great Britain can expect no succor from them by land...
...last week, middle-class U. S. readers had been subjected to enough proletarian novels to know what to expect when they opened a new one. They knew that the proletarian-heroes would be heroic, the capitalist-villains villainous; that in many a purple passage minor characters would hold forth like major prophets; that the gloriously tragic defeat of the heroes would leave its ineradicable Marx. Readers of Marching! Marching! and A Stone Came Rolling found them obedient to this pattern...
...stubbornly gambled away 1,000 francs in an effort to show her that her hunch about a certain number was nonsense. Though he never succeeded in weaning her from unpunctual habits, his husbandly summation was a nutshell masterpiece: "I regard non-punctuality as bad manners. I don't expect you to be punctual; I know you are not capable of it, save under great stress. On the other hand, I don't expect to be told, when you are late, that it is my fault that you are hurrying." He had little better luck with her spelling...