Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Love I'm After" has the virtue of being acted well, but also the fault of occasional banal dialogue. It is too much to expect, of course, that the scenario writers can make each line original as well as humorous; but just the same, you are conscious of the presence of well-wrinkled repartee. It doesn't make Bette Davis look prettier to hear her say: "I'll swallow my pride and go to him"; after the first laugh Leslie Howard seems a bit silly to say, when a knock on the door finds him in the arms...
Certainly the 1937 performance was nothing less than disgraceful. This year the number of Seniors who expect to attend their Baccalaureate should be estimated in advance. Then every pew should be reserved for families and friends and filled by tickets of admittance...
...ought to know-I made them. In street shoes Crawford stands 6 ft. 1½ in., in my shoes (Trademark "Staturaid" patent pending) he's a 6½ footer. Incidentally, this was only the second theatrical order I executed and with that buildup you can't expect inconspicuousness. My regular customers, business and professional people (average sales 200 pairs a month), generally need only 1½ to 2 inches, and I think you'd need a slide rule to tell it wasn't the usual shoe. From 75% to 80% of my business is done...
...they dosed all China. Batch after batch of local mayors and magistrates were ordered to Nanking, drilled and exhorted there in the primary decencies-to stop wiping noses on sleeves, to stop taking bribes from litigants. They were warned that he who did not practice the new Puritanism might expect the worst-and this was no empty threat...
...themselves out in the cold in 1933. Danes and Swedes took over the partly completed job, parceled it out to subcontractors, some of whom were British. Forty-five thousand Persian laborers and 5,000 foreign skilled workers have been working on the Trans-Iranian for the past four years, expect to finish the line in 1938. The $125,000,000 cost is being met by import taxes on sugar and tea, royalties on oil-which Shah Reza recovered for his countrymen...