Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confidently Bolsheviks expect that sooner or later all nations will join the Soviet Union as constituent republics. About 15,000 delegates, they estimate, will gather in Moscow from the ends of the earth to legislate in the Palace of the Soviets. Last week the palace site was cleared...
...outdone by eastern centers of learning, where horse-shoeing has been reduced to a science, Stanford University announces a course in fishing. One would expect that the student would gain a thorough grounding in the art of tieing flies, in the maintenance of tackle, and in fly casting from the faculty of arts and sciences. Such an apparently logical deduction is wrong, for the prospective anglers are to be taught by the department of physical education. The delicate art of Isaac Walton becomes productive material in the hands of Lionel Strongfort and Earl Liederman. Perhaps next month's issue...
...messiah gathers disciples and a priestess casts spells. Middle-aged Dancer Mary Wigman has thousands of followers in Germany. Last year she started bewitching the U. S. but her time was short. She began again last week in Providence, R. I., had the mixed reception that daring exhibitionists must expect. Most people applauded her wildly or sat in a state of self-conscious hush. Some groped for her message and were honestly perplexed. A few irreverents were amused at what seemed to them mere prancing, lunging and meaningless posturing...
...will be able to become the benefactress of some unknown man, anybody. From her chrysalis the big-hearted glowworm emerges as a good fairy. She picks up a telephone directory, looks up the name of a lawyer, tells her patron that he is her husband and that she will expect the patron to do the handsome thing...
...compliment to his audience. He says that he has asked Herr Molnar to write a more enlightening sequel for the U. S. edition of the play. The sequel shows the characters ten years later. Lu has married. Whom? Naturally the last one of the six male characters you would expect...