Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need to consider himself any longer "The Prisoner of the Vatican," but he is widening his orbit of movement with extreme circumspection. One day last week he set out soon after dawn to make a second visit to high, cool Castel Gandolfo, a Papal property in which most Romans expect Pius XI eventually to summer. As His Holiness whizzed along with his Master of Ceremonies suddenly POW !-a tire blew...
...touchdown; under floodlights, in Soldier Field, Chicago. ¶Cecil Smith, famed cowboy poloist: the case brought against him by Nurse Eugenia Rose of the Evanston, Ill. Hospital, who accused him of raping her in a ravine; when she withdrew her charges; in Evanston. Nurse Rose's reason: "I expect to be married and do not want any more publicity." Poloist Smith's statement: "Hereafter I shall not be so generous in my offers to drive young ladies to their homes...
...with the tour that gave Crawford and his confreres a chance to play at home against Vines, Gledhill. Van Ryn and Allison last winter. As good-humored as Brookes is taciturn, Crawford commented chipperly when Editor Wallis Merrihew of American Lawn Tennis asked him last spring whether he expected the Davis Cup to go back to the U. S.: "I expect the Davis Cup will go back to Americawhen we take it there on our way to Australia." If Vines and Crawford play each other in the final at Forest Hills, the match will be like another between...
...Alvah Traylor, who acquired his first banking job and his wife in Texas. But Banker Traylor denied this, did not attend the performance (he was out of town). Real sponsor of the production was wealthy Mrs. John Wesley Graham, head of the Texas Music Teachers Association. Said she: "I expect to fill Soldier Field. We will put on the opera with a company of 1,000, and Col. Zack Miller has promised us anything from his big menagerie. I had lunch with him and chose five elephants and a number of horses, camels and zebras." She paid the advance expenses...
Naturally, like Calvin Coolidge's "wonder boy" in 1928, a great deal is expected from Mr. Conant, for, as President Lowell said in his address to the alumni on Commencement day, "my successor is far better prepared for the job than I was." He is expected to make improvements, and President Lowell was among the first to expect him to make them. It is practically taken for granted that he will stand a few customs or even departments on their heads. But the point is that he has not by any means been picked by a few zealous reformers...