Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to pack even a suitcase), led his party to the sumptuous, somnolent Royal Victoria Hotel. He ordered tea, whiskey, a bath and a tailor. "I am glad I am with English people," he said. "England understands trouble and my relations with England were always good. I expect to sleep most of the day." Britons thought it possible he might sleep well, since Sr. Machado is reported to have a personal deposit with the Bank of England of 500,000 gold dollars. Senora Elvira Machado -estranged from her husband for the past five years-was escorted with other members...
...cause of the trouble in Cuba," said Nevada's Key Pittman, Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, returning last week from the London Conference. "If the United States should intervene I think other nations would understand." After conferring with the President, Senator Pittman amended: "I expect our warships back soon. The Monroe Doctrine is a thorn in the side of South American nations...
...jungles of embattled Bolivia and Paraguay and on to Argentina's spacious, glittering Buenos Aires where he arrived last week aged 14, approximately at the halfway mark ot his walk. With at least another 4,000 miles of tramping ahead of him, Scout Zembrana stoutly declared: "I expect to claim President Gomez's reward. I have now only to walk through Uruguay, Brazil [which is larger than the 48 United States] and the Guianas...
...talk. In Madrid, Ambassador Bowers received a letter from the male prisoners: "We are now four in a cell. . . . The stench is unbelievable." They concluded that the female prisoner, Mrs. Caroline Lockwood, "shows alarming signals of an approaching breakdown." In his tourist bureau Judge Vidal said authoritatively. "They cannot expect first-class hotel life while in jail...
...shoes to beat competitors' prices from Calcutta to Chicago. Finally the airplane in which Thomas Bat'a died hangs, carefully reconstructed, in his mechanistic Pantheon. Years before he died Thomas Bat'a, prompted by some obscure premonition, said to his Directors, "If I should die I expect you to stand by the works for one year. Then, if you are unable to continue without me, you are free to do what you like." Thomas was succeeded by his stepbrother Jan Bat'a, tall, broad and with an aggressively cleft chin. Jan last week had done more...