Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no editorial comment on the interviews, such as one might expect, and the editors might have seen fit to put in. It would have been easy to spoil things by inserting, at the end of the chapter on student morals, some tongue-clucking viewing-with-alarm. But no; you can read confession and revelation, and decide for yourself...
...Harold F. McCormick knows what to expect in this most melancholy season of the year. Last fortnight, when he heard that Ganna Walska was coming back from Paris, he waited further developments with a heart made heavy by foreboding and cheered only by the vague hope that perhaps, this once, Ganna Walska would be able to come home, like other people, without eccentric fussing or publicity...
...thing that polo demands most of all, of course, is strength. Women can handle their ponies as well but they cannot ever hope to get the distance that even mediocre male players expect. In golf, 50 yards on a drive can be cancelled by five feet on the green; not so in polo. Yet, there have been great women players. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, who must now be nearly 65, taught Winston Guest, as well as her own sons, the game; it would be difficult to say on how many summer mornings this superb lady has been seen on her field...
...Certainly the farmer in 1928 does not expect to feed his horses half the oats he did in 1914 and get the same service from them. That is exactly, however, what the public is demanding where it still insists on the 5? fare. If a 5? fare is insisted upon where on an average it costs 8? to transport, why talk about private capital doing that job? It simply cannot be done. Nor can it be done any cheaper by public capital, but we can tax the community instead of the individual rider to make up the difference...
...than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most severe sort...