Word: expected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech for three hours, completely at his ease, speaking clearly, from time to time putting his hands in his pockets. Once his tongue became entangled in "indubitably." He paused deliberately and pronounced it carefully. Once he asked for order when there was whispering in the Chamber: "I do not expect any Senator who is not interested to stay here and listen to me, but I would like order." Listening to him in the gallery almost directly over his head was a lady in black-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. She leaned over the gallery ledge in close attention as he declared: "President...
...have never been whipped under a lash in my life and by the eternal gods I never expect to be. Under this cloture lash I will not cringe. I objected, and my objection stands." As for Woodrow Wilson: "Every word I said about him on this floor, and every word that is in the Record, I said on the public rostrum in the state of South Carolina in the presence of thousands while he was living, and while his agents from the Department of Justice were stenographically reporting my remarks to the department and trying to put me in jail...
...Meanwhile M. Doumer appeared before the Finance Committee of the Chamber and told its Cartellist members that their plan was the work of bunglers who knew not the intricacies of state finance. He openly defied them: "Take care, my friends! Your measures will not produce the revenue which you expect. We shall run into danger, unless you bring to the Treasury important sums of which there is immediate need. France will treat with severity those who lead her into another phase of inadequate taxation followed by inflation and ultimately by disaster!" The Significance. Financial experts noted that the Doumer scheme...
...expect to devote most of my time after this year", stated Professor Lanman last night in commenting on his announced resignation, "in continuing the work on the Harvard Oriental Series of which there are several volumes either already on the press or nearing completion...
...other hand when it is obvious that the orchestra and balconies are filled by college students I am sure that the performance will be a success. The college boys have no ulterior reasons for coming. If they pay to take their friends to the theatre it is because they expect to enjoy themselves, and knowing that, the singers are able to give of their best...