Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What you expect to find, gentlemen," said Prince Ernst, "is not here...
...Buenos Aires is 5,300 miles. Not many people in Lawrenceville have frequent occasion to telephone to Buenos Aires, though Thornton Niven Wilder, who teaches school there, might have liked to telephone Peru while writing The Bridge of San Luis Key. Nevertheless, the telephone operators of Lawrenceville may expect many a call for Buenos Aires to go through before long. Arrangements were made last week for International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook its telephone-subscribers to its short wave radio station at Buenos Aires and for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook U. S. telephone-users to its short wave...
Duchess of Flights. Intimates of Mary du Cauroy, 63, Duchess of Bedford, received her telegrams one morning last week: "Off for India. Expect to be back in a week." By the time recipients had their word from this "duchess of flights," she had packed eight small suitcases into her Fokker and with pilot and mechanic was on her 10,000-mile way from Folkestone, Eng., to Karachi, India. Last year she attempted the same trip in the same plane, but was forced down at Bushire on the Persian Gulf. Flying is the Duchess' avocation. Professionally she is an electro-physicist...
...expect to take a dollar's worth of advertising away from our main competitors, Saturday Evening Post and Colliers. And after all, there is no real competition among magazines. Rivalry, yes-but there is room for all. However, we do expect to make Liberty the greatest magazine in the history of the publishing business...
...sacrifices have never been appreciated until the night when, as he lies drunk, she takes his place on the tightrope. Dangerous Curves employs Solution No. 2. Clara Bow gets the kiss in the fadeout. She is a better actress than her usual It-girl role would lead you to expect, but in most of her scenes she is not trying to act so much as to suggest, rather over-consciously, how "cute" she is. Best shot: Kay Francis in front of a bedroom door...