Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth place, losing games with exasperating regularity. After suffering four straight defeats at the hands of the Chicago Cubs, the Giants lost two out of four games to the St. Louis Cardinals. Meanwhile, a newspaper despatch quoted Mr. McGraw as saying: "I am getting tired of traveling and I expect to step out as manager. Hornsby is the man to carry on. The members of the club all swear by Hornsby." Mr. McGraw quickly branded this despatch as false, said: "They always start that report when the team is losing." However, McGraw had praised Hornsby highly on Hornsby...
Responding to an interpellation in the Chamber of Deputies, the Premier rapped out: "I do not propose ratification of the [Franco-British and Franco-U. S.] debt-funding accords, because I expect to get better terms; and because Parliament certainly would not agree to bind the country for the proposed term of 62 years...
...payments as she may wish to give-payments similar to the $10,000,000 recently tendered by France and accepted by the U. S. "without prejudice to ratification" (TIME, March 14). Perhaps that was what foxy M. Poincaré had in mind last week when he crisply affirmed: "I expect to get better terms," and then would say no more...
...appendicitis operation of 1926 has long been mended and a new Miss Wills has been evolved-a harder-hitting, more accurately chop-stroking Miss Wills who critics expect will win both the Wimbledon and U. S. championships...
...Mountain" has nothing to do anymore with actions and happenings of which Buddenbrooks are as full as an old chronicle. It is purely experience of the soul, action-or not even that,-reflection of the mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd period in a man's life? But that is what the book is written around, a wonderful book, full of contemplative thought, of dialectic discussion, of wisdom. It is the ripest of the author's works, it is his most German work. It may well...