Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect to have a good secretary...
...Story. Pollyanna Whittier, inventor of the famed "glad game" (which consists of picking out silver linings for all the blackest clouds), marries Jimmy Pendleton in Chapter One and becomes forthwith "just the entrancing, glad little bride you would expect her (from the previous Pollyanna books**) to be." It rains on her wedding-day, Jimmy hasn't much money, their apartment looks out on fire-escapes, Jimmy eats up the chicken-salad she was saving for dinner, just because he happens to find it alone and unprotected in the icebox - but things of this sort are, to Pollyanna, merely added...
...tons from the figure for May 31 preceding, and the lowest statement since November, 1914, when it was 3,242,692 tons. On the June rate of shipments, orders now on U. S. Steel's books represent about four months' business. Yet steel men seem to expect marked improvement in the industry by September...
...Abergwyfni Wales, the Premier, expressing pleasure at the acceptance by the U. S. of an invitation to the Premiers' Conference (TIME, July 7), said he did not expect the U. S to help Europe solve her problems just now. "She is too wise to do that, but there is no great nation on the face of the earth, no nation like America, mighty in the equality of its people, powerful in its wealth, that can isolate itself from the others...
...modest little evening at home, compared to all the Flaming Youth's that have lately tried to set the screen on fire. In order to put novelty into it, the heroine is made to say, with the pertinacity of a parrot, "I'm a good girl; I expect a man to make one mistake-but only one." Betty Compson, looking her prettiest, is probably so well-behaved because the picture was directed by her future husband, James Cruze. The story of this girl, angling for a husband among various flirtatious businessmen, gathers headway slowly, as respectably riotous films...