Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they were told to do by their Boss. Seen off the floor, however, convention delegates look just like so many everyday citizens assembled to compare calmly, discuss intelligently and express independently their individual opinions as to who should be President of the U. S. Next week, Kansas Citizens may expect to see George Eastman, the grey, lean, bespectacled Kodak man, moving about the town. He is a delegate-at-large from New York. Leading the New York delegation is distinguished-looking Charles Dewey Hilles who was President Taft's secretary and later a big insurance man who felt...
...suggested that the American who drew the inside lane that day, the moment that he was set, should start running. The rest of us would know what to expect and could save ourselves. But Abrahams, the Englishman, in order to protect himself would have to go, too, expending his energy. Of course if the first American was not called back he would undoubtedly win. But if he did not get away with it, then the next American would try, and the next, until each American would have started twice, while Abrahams would have had to start hard eight times...
...stamped, Modernists have scoffed and reasoned, Moderates have explained and pleaded. This year, the meeting in Tulsa, Okla., had a minimum of excursions and alarms. The Fundamentalists were apparently in sufficient majority to achieve victory in the things which lay nearest their hearts and Bibles; they could not, however, expect to work their wills upon every issue. They did not try to do so : the conference opened two weeks ago like a lion's mouth and closed last week like a lamb...
...balm in the Equitable Trust's advertisement, which read: "Banks don't solicit expiring accounts. Establish your banking relationship and your credit while conditions are favorable. No doctor is anxious to be called in when the patient is known to be dying. Neither can you expect any bank to want your account when you are in business trouble. . . . Be sure to establish a profitable connection when you are prosperous and in a position to choose...
...decorations were to be given, I certainly could reasonably expect one worthy of my rank. I didn't ask for the Legion of Honor, but only said the decoration should correspond to my position in the musical world...