Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of its recent debauches and abhorrent practices the lampoon is not expected to just up much of a fight. They expect to make the trip to the field in a taily-ho, which will be used after the gaine to take the casualties to the infirmary. Ashamed to appear in public after their abominable carnpaign of fifth, the Mount Anburn Street, wastrels will be dressed in queer outlandish costumes. On the other hand, the CRIMSON will appear in neat back and white...
Houghton surprised them all by refusing to "dig up" again the hardy plant of Anglo-American friendship which would flourish if it "be spared the scorching winds of after-dinner oratory. . . . You will not expect me to refer to 'hands across the sea,' " or even to "the language of Shakespeare, which neither of us uses...
...have sold nearly all my property, including my first home here, Villa Serena, except the new and less valuable home into which we moved last fall. When the remainder of my property is turned into interest-bearing securities, I can reasonably expect to have, for the first time in my life, an income sufficient for the needs of Mrs. Bryan and myself, even when I am no longer able to add to that income by literary work...
Cologne bridgehead: "The fact that there is still an evacuation question is a sign that there has been no progress. . . . For more than three and a half months, we have waited vainly for a substantial justification of non-evacuation. . . . We must definitely expect that the allied governments will no longer delay to end this state of affairs...
...college for men and women who expect to enter business when they graduate, the Antioch idea offers a valuable preparation. For six years the undergraduate takes alternate bites, first from the cake of cultural education, then from the crack of business, until his meal has made him, in Bacon's phrase, is a full man." Antioch thus combines scholasticism with worldly experience, and although, because of its dual system, it seldom produces specialists in either field, it does provide a much-needed kind of education. But the claim of Dr. Potter that Antioch furnishes", an education which is religion...