Word: expected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expect the game to be played over; this would be impossible because most of the pontes have been shipped away from the Armory, but I do want to prevent this same thing from happening again next year...
When Treasury issues are oversubscribed, the individual subscriptions are merely scaled down proportionately. Banks, corporations, bond dealers, private investors therefore generally ask for more securities than they really expect to get. This time the Treasury's offerings were very tempting in comparison with other Government issues, with the result that subscriptions were "padded" more than usual. Moreover, in their eagerness to get bigger allotments, some dealers persuaded friendly corporations to put in additional subscriptions for them. One Midwest manufacturer, Mr. Morgenthau declared, had sent in a "terrific subscription," obviously a "phony." All suspiciously large subscribers were...
Leslie Howard is recognized as one of the really fine actors in Hollywood and even though he seems to have risen above his normal performance in "The Petrified Forest," we rather expect it of him. The really good news from this picture is that Bette Davis is capable of taking her place in the same top rank with Howard. Their acting alone would make it imperative that the picture be recommended, but even higher praise is due when the rest of the cast is above the usual level of mediocrity among the minors...
Since Messieurs les Ronds-de-Cuir ("Gentlemen of the Leather Pads," functionaries of the French State who sit on leather pads) are the class of voters perhaps most devoted to M. Blum, they would expect to get even better jobs and more of them in the Socialist Bureaucracy his new French deal would create. With approval Orator Blum has hailed what he calls the "bold grandeur" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "sound ideas...
Author Bentley, without disallowing history's whispers that Caesar was a rake, minimizes the details. Readers who expect a luscious Egyptian interlude with Cleopatra do not know their Bentley. Cleopatra makes only one appearance-fully clothed and middleaged. Caesar's most constant mistress was Servilia, Brutus' mother, and of her Author Bentley contrives to make a somehow noble Roman matron, though she was twice married and continually unfaithful to both husbands. The other chief figures in the story appear as conventional history reports them: Pompey, a handsome, courageous, slow-minded soldier; Cicero a henpecked, opportunistic politician with...