Word: expected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certainly balm in our etherial Gilead. Those are, of course, the high spots. But the steady listener cannot have failed to appreciate the general improvement of the average program. Whether it is because the technical developments in both transmitting and receiving apparatus tend to encourage the public ear to expect better things, or because the tenor of the age is not in tune with staccato rhythms and the grosser tin-pan melodies is a matter for speculation. Certainly the technique of arranging musical instruments before a microphone has increased the illusion of reality almost as much as the widened tonal...
...When does General Tojo expect war with Russia...
Somehow, Geneva has been particularly impotent during the recent succession of European crises. One might expect the usual beau geste, the customary mellow phrase from that superannuated society of diplomats, but even that has been lacking. The reason may be found in the constitution of the organization itself. At its inception, the right to declare war was expressly reserved for each of its members gathered, ostensibly, to outlaw it. Rampant, nationalisms cannot enter a suicide pact cheerfully unless their pistols are loaded with blank cartridges...
...tennis supremacy would be a tournament comprised of amateurs and professionals. Much red tape between the U. S. L. T. A. and the International Lawn Tennis Federation would have to be cut before a U. S. open could be sanctioned. Even its most optimistic advocates last week did not expect to see open tennis before...
Adapted by Aben Finkel and Sidney Sutherland, two able ex-journalist scenarists, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and acted, with characteristic authority, by Paul Muni, it would be rational to expect Hi, Nellie to be plausible. Instead it is another anthology of expletive improbabilities. The city room of the Times-Star is conducted as though it were a day nursery. The girl (Glenda Farrell) who precedes Bradshaw as "Nellie Nelson" is overfond of inelegant cliches like "So you can't take it." When Bradshaw sits down to write a column, he does it with one sheet of paper...