Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...genuine, thus reversing the Quai d'Orsay's original contention that Captain Canning could not be dealt with because he might be an impostor. The Chamber sat up very straight and pricked its ears as M. Briand went on to imply that France and Spain expect to end the Moroccan war next spring with a complete victory over Abd-el-Krim. Well pleased, Deputies voted another 400 million francs for the expenses of the French troops in Morocco...
...Horace above the Fountain of Bandusia, he knows little more of men. A liar is nearly always a liar. But he is only more obviously a liar when drunk. And when Mr. Nathan disputes the axiom of his elder he is missing this point. But then one cannot expect an eclectic critic to realize every point when there are so many pages to write and so many schnitzels...
...Governing Board and the Student Committee wish to have submitted to them the names of all men who desire to fill this position. All men who wish to be considered are requested to send in to the present Graduate Secretaries their names, and information concerning the work they expect to do, and the time they expect to have available next year. Although this position requires a substantial amount of time, it carries with it an adequate compensation. Any student in the University except those who are now in the Freshman or Sophomore class are eligible to apply...
...production entitled "Sweetheart Time" could hardly be a startlingly original offering. The title conjures up all that is trite and inconsequential in musical comedy and leads us to expect sickly sentimentality decked in shimmering summer dresses, roses, and orange blossoms--an unseasonable dish, certainly, for a long winter evening. And true enough, the sentimentality, the summer dresses, the roses, and the orange blossoms are all present. Even so "Sweetheart Time" makes easy escape from the anticipated slough of hum-drum mediocrity...
...great men before their deaths. Who has not heard rumors that Mussolini is a pale spectre of himself, burnt out by overwork? I visited him three weeks ago in Rome, and found him not at all the feeble man tottering into the grave that I had been led to expect. . . . He looks fit, mentally and physically...