Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When news of this reached Berlin peppery Dr. Schacht, boiling with rage, rushed around to the afternoon teaparty for the foreign press and diplomats at the Ministry of Propaganda (see p. 16). "Nobody will expect Germany to accept such a clearance system!" he snapped at the assembled correspondents, reminding them that while Germany has a favorable trade balance with the United Kingdom she has an unfavorable balance with the British Empire as a whole. This fact gave Dr. Schacht a chance to threaten "complete rejection of all further intercourse" with the Empire, should the Kingdom crack down on Germany...
...produce a faster boat than the one named in the challenge. While Weetamoe, Yankee and rainbow were racing off Newport last week, England was having America's Cup trials off Cowes. In three races, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's new Endeavor, in which he and Mrs. Sopwith expect to cross the Atlantic this month, beat her trial horse, W. L Stephenson's Velsheda, twice. Unlike the Shamrocks which were all green, Endeavor is a pale hydrangea blue. She is built entirely of steel except for a mahogany rudder, silver-spruce boom and pine decks...
...Slow Train Through Arkansas described the vicissitudes of a traveler who, clean-shaven at the beginning of an Arkansas train ride, had a full-grown beard at the trip's end. He explained he did not want to get off and walk because his family did not expect him until the train got in. Another traveler tried to commit suicide by lying on the tracks in front of the train, starved to death before the locomotive reached...
...purposes of recovery as well as for reasonable payment on the debt owed to the citizens of the United States or for purposes of unproductive nationalistic expenditure. ..." In short, France, which has spent millions for armaments but not a sou on its debt in the last two years, cannot expect to be let off easy...
...embroider on, chose rather to go back to Asia to wake a slumbering legend. Originally attracted by the charm and the tantalizing brevity of this "natural narrative" of Jacob and his sons, Mann soon saw greater & greater depths in the story, an unsuspected universality in its theme. Readers will expect much more than a refurbished narrative of the tale of Joseph and they will not be disappointed. Author Mann has woven the threads of myth, history and fiction into a story of consummate artistry, but from time to time he deliberately breaks the thread, ties it into the deeper pattern...