Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of ancients who did not believe in God. Since Cleopatra has nothing to do with Christianity, it lacks most of the emotional impact DeMille usually gets into his pictures. The best substitute for emotion is spectacle but even here De Mille is not up to scratch. Audiences that expect nothing less than a World War from him are likely to be disappointed that the most spectacular shot in Cleopatra is one of the inside of her barge with 500 oar handles moving slowly to the thumping rhythm of a large firegong. Eight thousand extras were supposed to have been...
...deceased. Because insurance is among the last assets a man forfeits, the tombstone makers were serene long after hard times had pinched other manufacturers. In 1929 they sold $100,000,000 of memorials. By 1932 their gross had slipped to a third of that sum. but this year they expect to take in $60,000,000.* Ideal tombstone customer was the late Steelmaster Judge Elbert Henry Gary who built no less than 42 crypts and declared: "I believe every man should consider Death as carefully as he would consider a business proposition...
...farmers in and out of the drought area, the reasons were as plain as a pig's snout. For corn farmers will get double last summer's prices. For livestock, poultry and dairy products, which constitute the bulk of farm income, they can expect to realize nearly $700,000,000 more than last year...
...What right have you to expect us to have confidence in you? We have faith in Adolf Hitler because he has won it in 15 years of effort. You have nothing behind you but one year of failure. In this oath presented by your legal councilor you are hiding yourself behind Hitler and trying somehow to take refuge in his shadow...
...Gloomed over a warning to the House by President Walter Runciman of the Board of Trade that Britons may now expect some deflation of the boom which started when the Government switched from free trade to protection?a switch which enabled British manufacturers to recover much business in the home market which they had lost to cut-rate foreign competitors. All last week Britain's professionally pessimistic press economists drew dire conclusions from President Runciman's mild assertion: "There are signs that the home market has reached the saturation point...