Word: expectantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wedding with matronly feelings duplicated outside the church by Englishwomen so enthusiastic that some, striving for a better view, staged a sit-down strike in the middle of the street until lifted aside by courteous Bobbies. Partly because the Protestant bride has not yet become Catholic (as both families expect she will) and partly because nothing could add lustre to a wedding so entirely aristocratic, the candles were unlighted, the Oratory was undecked and two of the six page boys, swank moppets dressed in the racing colors of the duke, behaved as lordly little scamps. One pinched another who started...
...workers on rescue and relief work, while President Roosevelt mobilized Army, Navy, Coast Guard, CCC and announced that he was "taking personal charge" of the Government's relief forces, one voice raucously raised the question: How did it happen? At Memphis this week Army Engineers expect the Mississippi to reach the 53-ft. level. In the epochal 1927 flood, than which the nation had yet to see worse, the water was only 45.6 ft. at Memphis. Yet last week Memphis was not badly worried, because in the past eight years the Army's brains and Congressional generosity have...
...invention for idle hands. The new Darrow game is Bulls & Bears. Success of Monopoly, which was last week estimated to be in its sixth million and selling faster than ever, gave Bulls & Bears a pre-publication sale of 100,000, largest on record for a new game. Parker Brothers expect it and a more morbid diversion called Jury Box to be the major new rivals to contract bridge for 1937. Trend in U. S. games demonstrated by both Bulls & Bears and Jury Box is realism, which recurs in parlor sports at 30-year intervals. Monopoly, based on real-estate tradings...
...This sort of exaggeration is all that one can expect from a certain type of sensationalist literature," continues Miss Temple...
...businessmen an attention usually reserved for the stock tables. The upsurge in commodities which got under way last summer and developed into the most significant economic trend of 1936 has not carried through to any important extent into the general retail price level. Nor do all merchants expect the retail rise to come this spring. In Montgomery Ward's spring & summer catalog, out last week, mail-order prices were actually down by about...