Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their laps, sat watching the antics of Mickey Mouse, an erupting volcano, travelogs, Bobby Jones measuring a fairway. Part of an ambitious project that has been going on since May and will continue until September, they had seen and judged by last week some 1,500 motion pictures and expect to see several hundred more. What they propose to accomplish by this labor, undertaken for an advisory committee of Will Hays's Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., is the first complete report on the educational possibilities of the U. S. commercial cinema...
...Walker paid a call at the White House (see cut). Ostensibly Jimmy went as lawyer-lobbyist for a long-projected "57th Street Bridge," which would connect New Jersey with Manhattan's 62nd Street. Outside the White House, Citizen Walker said, "[We were greeted] as cordially as anybody could expect to be greeted by the President...
...Admiralty, Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper: "Let us remember that late in the World War we did everything in our power to starve the women and children in Germany! . . . Those [Leftist food] ships, every one of them, are performing invaluable services to the Spanish [Leftist] Government. . . . Can they really expect that the British Navy will see them safe into harbor...
...deaden the fibrils of nerves which are supposed to run through the dentine of teeth. Critics of the Hartman and Osser-man-Taub anesthetics pointed out that, 1) it is doubtful that dentine contains nerve tissues, 2) the chemicals do not always work, 3) such news makes patients expect too much of a dentist. Commented Dr. Fred R. Adams of Manhattan: "Our problem is not how to avoid causing pain, for we now know how to do that, but to educate the patients to forget the fear which has developed through several generations of pain expectation...
...secondary moment. Snorted Mrs. Szatkus last week, "We were married but we never lived together as man and wife." Snorted Mr. Szatkus' lawyer, "They offered us $30,000 to settle the case. . . . Mae West can have half of Wallace's [Szatkus'] possessions. . . . Next week we expect to apply for an injunction that will tie up all of Miss West's property in California." That his client's share-Mae-West's-wealth movement might be halted by California's community property law proviso that a separated wife's earnings...