Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That even this face-saving ghost of the Administration's pet tax project might well be further modified the Committee was well aware when it reported the bill. What it did not expect was that a 326 to 104 Democratic majority in the House would, especially in an election year, prove so much more responsive to the wishes of business than to the wishes of the Administration as to kill the third basket entirely. This last week was precisely what occurred. So eager was Congress to show that it is still a representative body that it was willing...
Concluding this tale, Negro Downs told of "the deep passion of hatred and despair which involuntarily boiled within me," described how he conquered it and subsequently addressed the Council on "What We Expect of Our Church" without once referring to his experience...
...take it from me that I have no precise instructions from the President," he confided. "You can't expect me to develop into a statesman overnight. . . . By 1940 I believe there will be regular passenger and freight airlines across the Atlantic, and I would be willing to be the first passenger myself. . . . Right now the average American isn't as interested in foreign affairs as he is in how he's going to eat and whether his insurance is good. Some, maybe, even are more interested in how Casey Stengel's Boston Bees are going...
...made less impressive by the fact that it was the only one in the field. Although now & then the Saturday Review took a flyer in an extended literary appraisal, with articles by Critic John Chamberlain, H. L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, as a rule its 21,000 readers could expect: ten or twelve pages of reviews each week; a yes & no editorial about the book clubs, best sellers, proletarian novels, modern poetry or some current literary subject; Christopher Morley's The Bowling Green, in which the author ranged from his enthusiasm for Chaucer and Conan Doyle to accounts...
...complaint against the conduct of hockey here is not a new one but one which has been in the air for several seasons. One poor season, however, has brought the issue to a head. Followers of Harvard hockey had every right to expect a great showing from this year's sextet. That they were disappointed has led to every sort of criticism of the hockey set-up. The team was a house divided, the team lacked spirit, the team trained at the Ritz and the Copley, the team had forgotten that it represented the Harvard undergraduates. How much of this...