Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just What You Expect...
...political pitfall the Legislative opposition set for him, blundering Governor Gore suffered more when his house was twice bombed three months ago. Shortly thereafter he departed Puerto Rico on sick leave. Arriving in Manhattan, the exasperated administrator told ship news reporters: ''That's just what you expect in those countries down there!" Last week just what everyone in Washington had expected occurred. Governor Gore resigned. ''The climate of Puerto Rico," he explained to President Roosevelt, "has not been conducive to my own health or that of members of my family." The President accepted with customary...
...disappointment was great at finding that it was not a musical, an illusion we had carried about New York literally for months. It certainly should have been a musical: it has just the right sort of plot, and even in the second act it is hard not to expect a chorus to come tripping on any moment, faces and limbs aglow with professional cheer. Our sense of hearing, dulled by this disappointment, and by the discovery that we had been trepanned off practically into the wings, was not helped by the acoustics of the Lyceum. Altogether there was every reason...
Middle-Class Cars. The bulk of independent motor companies compete in the rangy medium-priced field. The low-priced field thawed first under last year's warm sun of Recovery. In 1934, motormen expect softer ground and easier going for the medium-priced models...
Manhattan crowds flocked to the 34th annual automobile in a buying mood and U. S. motormen had ample reason to expect good hunting when they left the council rock...