Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mail. One of Mrs. Walsh's two stepdaughters is the wife of the Mayor of Havana. The other is the widow of President Clemente Vasquez Bello of the Cuban Senate (assassinated last autumn). After the ceremony the Walshes flew toward Washington for the Inaugural. Declared Senator Walsh: "I expect to take two months vacation to show my wife the beauties of Montana...
...expect to see either a return to classicism or a departure into symbolism. In fact, I should be very sorry to see an 'ism' become the style. Symbolism is very indefinite and is useful only to denote a group of French writers. Classicism cannot be returned to, for one does not return to classics or to anything else. It is for posterity to discover that we are 'classical...
Officials expect the structure to be completed by November 1. It will be of brick and wood in Colonial style...
...sales tax (though his own Mississippi has a State one), is inclined to go to the income-tax-paying class for more revenue. A vociferous foe of Republican protection, he is a red-hot supporter of President-elect Roosevelt's reciprocal tariff scheme. Under his chairmanship Industry can expect deep cuts in its protective rates but Agriculture will be kept well inside the wall. On War debts he is relatively open-minded, except in the case of France. Once, traveling in Europe, he was stopped at the French border and fined for trying to smuggle a box of cheap...
...tallow. When a live person suits the purposes of the waxworker, he has no hesitation about resorting to murder. The picture hints rather broadly that the corpse of Justice Joseph Force Crater (who disappeared in Manhattan in 1930) is now a rouged mummy in an exhibition. Just when you expect to learn more about how the proprietor of the wax works conducts his business, the picture ends-because the proprietor falls into a puddle of his own wax and because the girl reporter who discovers his thefts from the morgue becomes engaged to her city editor. Good shot: Marie Antoinette...