Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dead. Knowing only a little of Abyssinia, its blazing heat and freezing nights, its mosquito-infested swamps, fierce tribesmen, arid plains and almost impregnable mountains, what benefits then does Italy expect to get from its subjugation? Italian Finance Minister Count Paolo Thaon di Revel announced last week that the Italian expedition to Abyssinia had already cost the Fascist Government $50,000,000, and Italian troops have not yet crossed the frontier. Fascist bigwigs divide the Abyssinian advantages of the campaign into two groups, sentimental and practical...
Those who are led (by its jacket's encomiums) to expect another South Wind or even a Vile Bodies are in for a disagreeable disappointment. This portrait of an old rapscallion is satire too cold to be amusing; it is written with the analytic distaste of one who watches without pity the dwindling of a pathologically older generation...
They were reported to have agreed that: 1) the Mother Country is justified in greatly increasing her armaments, not to impose the Pax Britannica-that being somewhat out of date-but "to play an effective mediating rôle" in Europe; 2) the dominions expect Great Britain, if the necessity arises,to act in a European crisis even before she has opportunity to inform them fully of her policy; 3) each dominion in freedom under the Crown has the right to make its own decision whether or not to associate itself with the other Country's high policies...
...read what political observers had to say about his big act, he must have been disappointed. Most positive was Correspondent Joseph Cookman of the liberal New York Post: "To most of his audience, the failure to arrive at any definite results such as they had been led to expect, was puzzling. To the insiders it was little short of tragic. . . . Father Coughlin had called an organization meeting and had no program for anything except a rally...
When Author Thomas Mann, some ten years ago, began to write his version of the ancient tale of Joseph, he did not expect to find in its archaic simplicity such profound implications as he soon began to discover. The story of Joseph in the Bible takes 13 chapters; to cover the same ground Author Mann has already used up two full-length volumes, will need one more. But, as readers of the first installment know (TIME, June 11, Joseph And His Brothers is not simply an expanded retelling of the Bible tale. In the 50-odd close-written pages that...