Word: expected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol Boss Guffey herded them all together for a lesson in practical politics. As newcomers to Congress most of them could not expect much immediate preferment but Mr. Guffey pointed out that for them to get their due and perhaps a little more their best course was to stand and deliver their votes in a body. Twenty-three votes from Pennsylvania would put Representative Byrns into the Speakership when Congress meets Jan. 3 and for that each member of the delegation would undoubtedly get his reward in terms of good committee assignments...
...complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of the psalms without injury to the eyes. We therefore, respectfully suggest that on cloudy mornings the gloomy chapel be illuminated by a stray candle here and there. The reader may now expect some words about electric light in the library. But, for today we have finished our suggestions to the powers above us, whether faculty or janitor--Editorial...
...tomorrow we attack this world's record of $44,000. We hope to sell $50,000. . . . It's really absurd to expect we can accomplish this task. It means selling 250 sets an hour for eight hours?four sets every minute?one set every 14 seconds. But, in spite of its absurdity, we're going to try. For that record is held in Los Angeles and what Los Angeles can do San Francisco can do better. At least that's the way our college boys and our football teams figure. They've done...
...expect at least five hundred mail orders?we had as many as 160 once before. We expect several hundred people to phone us their orders. We shall have six girls on the telephones ... a score of extra salesmen in our San Francisco store." The day of the great Samuels silver sale dawned cold and grey. Soon it began to rain. It rained all day. Enough patriotic San Franciscans went to Samuels' in slickers and galoshes to keep the extra crew of clerks busy. But as a record-breaking sale it was a wet, soggy flop...
...public has come to expect, the entire picture, is carried along on Eddie Cantor's shoulders. He gets off some of the oldest gags that we have heard in a major "comedy" production, but with his irresistably suggestive eyes he manages to get away with it and the audience seem to be tickled most of the time...