Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returns by individuals and corporations should be made public. The law which made this possible was passed over the Administration's protest by Democrats and insurgents. A howl of rage went up from business men everywhere. Perhaps Secretary Mellon meant to suggest by his gesture: "You may expect more of this if you support our opponents...
...conditions are much better at the present time and will be further improved by the Conservative Party coming into power. I expect that Sir George Lloyd [ex-Governor of Bombay] will be the next Viceroy when Lord Reading retires, which will be in April, 1925, if not before...
...hour. Half the town (Elmira, N. Y.), as they sang hymns of salvation, saw their sins stand horrible and naked before them. The evangelist leapt to the rostrum, proclaimed his text: "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH." Finally, said he: "No person in whose heart reposes guilty knowledge need expect to make peace with God until full confession is first made." Dawn. In police headquarters, a night captain leaned drowsily over his desk. He felt chill dawn creep through an open door. A solitary woman came toward him. She was on the graveward side of 50, listless, tearstained, slummocky. When...
Coady and Daley are two Sophomores in almost the same boat as Gamache. Brilliancy against the Tiger will make them. They have risen to University calibre amid great odds. The attainment of their present positions makes critics expect a lot from them today...
...rather extreme to expect that these satires will rouse the Spanish in defense of their liberties. For, after all, satire implies a considerable degree of intellect on the part of the reader, and can never be as successful with the masses as downright and obvious abuse. Nevertheless the world outside of Spain finds in the affair a hint of the days when literature had a dash of spiteful fire, and principles had not yet succeeded to the commercial urge. Bagaria will, perhaps, never attain to the immortality of Swift, but his is the honor of adding at least...