Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consistent with your obvious bias against the U. S. S. R. is your reference to Stalin as a "terrorist" while withholding the same qualification from Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The labor movement, the proletariat as a whole can expect nothing but sniggering from a magazine whose heart bleeds over poor J. P. Morgan having to answer questions before a horrid munitions investigating committee. Your cut of a Morgan partner exposed to the "cold stare" of a committee clerk was a perfect illustration of your antipathy...
...quotation from a "wise philosopher at whose feet I sat," he raised political campaigning to a metaphysical plane (TIME, Jan. 13). The quotation, an exhortation to loyalty to high ideals, came from Harvard's Professor Josiah Royce, who died in 1916. Little reason had Franklin Roosevelt to expect that a quotation from a philosopher long dead would awake echoes either philosophic or political. But even a fabulously absent-minded professor, who lived for 34 years in an oasis of metaphysical calm while he walked the streets of Cambridge, Mass, with his arctics unfastened and his eyes turned inward...
...Champion "Speed"' MacFarland. Acclaimed for the knockout, Burleigh is urged by MacFarland's manager (Adolphe Menjou) to try prizefighting professionally. He accepts, to raise money to help cure Agnes, his ailing milkwagon horse. The story that follows is what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director Leo McCarey keeps them sputtering across the screen at firecracker speed. Funniest scenes: Lloyd learning to box from MacFarland's tough sparring partner (Lionel Stander); teaching the dowager patron of a benefit bout how to duck a punch; knocking out Champion MacFarland...
Seniors and others who expect to complete the requirements for the Bachelor's Degree in June must file at 4. University Hall, not later than Thursday, February 20, an application for the degree, on a card to be obtained at the Information Desk, 4 University Hall. Those who have not yet handed in the application card are requested to do so at once...
...that the issue has been put squarely before a committee of the State Legislature, the theatres and the theatre-going public have the right to expect a much improved arrangement. The Censorship Board should include competent authorities and exclude mere political officers. Above all, the theatres are entitled to a fair presentation of their views and a chance to protect themselves...