Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Georgia Warm Springs now self-sustaining and public interest in it waning, it was decided that this year the birthday celebration should finance a new National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The event's organizers expect to raise $3,000,000, none of which will go to Georgia Warm Springs, but to research. Nominal head of the new organization is the President's onetime law partner, Basil O'Connor, who enthusiastically declared: "We could use the entire mint in this work and produce 10,000 Warm Springs." Actual head is Keith Morgan, good Roosevelt friend, glib insurance...
...week at The Hague. There Son Sun called an emergency council of China's chief diplomatic envoys in Europe, including famed Ambassador to France Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. Observers assumed that Sun was inquiring desperately of China's ablest envoys what assistance, if any, China may expect from the Great Powers. Next scheduled Sun stop: Moscow...
...crude blunder in the peace treaties to forbid the union of German Austria with the German Republic. ... It will be safer policy to expect and allow for the expansion of German interests along lines which it is patently destined to follow. ... If there is to be peace, there can be no exemption from contribution and concession-neither for Germans, nor for Czechs, nor for the British Empire either. . . . The gravitational pull of a nation of 70,000,000 [Germany] cannot be denied...
...with speeches defending businessmen. When Cornplow refuses to give $500 to the Spanish government, Sara snarls at him, "Heaven knows I can't give anything with my wretched income," and Cornplow snarls right back, "I know I'm just a millionaire capitalist . . . only I don't expect to contribute for the privilege of being destroyed!" With a dozen of the 40 brief chapters in The Prodigal Parents sounding variations of that theme in varying degrees of abruptness, crudity, animosity, all the characters emerge as too intense to be as funny as the situation warrants...
...possible angles are overlooked in the searching probe, as successive questions demand, "Are you afraid of chorus girls?"; "Are you engaged?"; and "Are you married?". Going even further than late permission slips at Wellesley, the blank asks, "What do you expect to do on this date...