Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great picnic. Nearly 100,000 of Boss Brennan's followers met on a great hillside pasture, but the fireworks failed to materialize. Mr. Smith said it was too much to expect states to reduce their expenses as much as the Federal Government had done, because the states had no war expenses to clean away. From then on he did not touch on another national issue-not Prohibition, nor the Ku Klax Klan. The crowd applauded but it did not go wild...
...them for Britain, and added: "It is our business henceforward to be sternly practical. . . The League is the greatest international fact of our day." M. de Jouvenal uttered them for France, and added that nations must not go to sleep as the echoes of one war die away and expect to awake in safety as the next one rumbles in the offing, but must make mutual sacrifices to attain mutual gains...
...their assignments. Best of all were the chorus work?really extraordinarily fine in its ensemble singing?and the costumes of James Reynolds. There was rather a lack of laughter, but it did not seem to matter. The Vagabond King is as good a romantic operetta as one can normally expect. In fact, far better...
...punch sustained at critical times as when the team was in scoring distance. It does not help very much to gain ground in mid-field if the offence is going to collapse when it is in the opponents territory. There were indications on Saturday which should lead us to expect this team to make the most of its opportunities which seldom come in abundance in the course of a game...
...courage is the prime requisite of a football player, the hero in question may reasonably expect to see himself listed in most of the all-American selections this year. Serious personal injury would probably have been his lot in other institutions where students are more impulsive than at Columbia. Perhaps, even among Columbia's countless apathetic thousands, only a football player could attempt what this young man did without being cast from the top of Grant's tomb...