Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are only a few moments, like the one in which Jennie tells about Love while fitting her daughter's high school graduation dress, when all this becomes as mawkish as you might expect. Forced to abbreviate, to underline, to shade his story, Director Marion Gering managed to preserve in the picture the calm sympathy for persons innocently trapped in a dilemma which was the chief characteristic of Dreiser's book. Donald Cook, Sylvia Sidney and a character actress named Greta Meyer, in the role of an old cousin who takes care of Jennie's daughter...
...After all the creditor nations ought to have realized, they must realize anyhow, that commercial debts can only be paid in goods and services, and unless they are prepared to take goods and services, they cannot expect to have their debts paid...
...Messieurs," said he. "France has a budget. It is not the best budget in the world, with a deficit of over 3,500,000,000 francs [$163,450,000] among other weaknesses, but it is the best budget that anyone has a right to expect in these critical times...
Professor Housman is unusual among poets: he does not consider himself one. With the publication of Last Poems (1922) he announced: "It is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer expect to be revisited by the continuous excitement under which ... I wrote . . . nor indeed could I well sustain it if it came." He has had two rides on Pegasus; he wants no more. This abrupt reverence would be a rare phenomenon in any day. Anything Poet Housman had to say would carry authority to a multitude of readers. Few years...
...devised in I Cover the Waterfront by a grizzled old fishing captain, Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence). It is discovered and reported to the authorities by a brisk and bibulous journalist (Ben Lyon) who is in love with Kirk's daughter, Julie (Claudette Colbert). The difficulties you might expect in a situation of this sort arise promptly: a Coast Guard officer shoots Kirk, who shoots the reporter who, when he gets out of the hospital, marries Julie. Far from the tenor of the book by Max Miller, from which it was adapted by Wells Root, I Cover the Waterfront...