Word: expected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father will probably similarly deny having backed my plan for reorganization of the nation's air lines ... for which Elliott and his associates were to receive an interest estimated at $750,000 per year, because at the time we were dealing I was warned to expect such denials if there was any leak concerning our association. ... I paid that $5,000 cash to Elliott Roosevelt . . . and I still hold his receipt for the money...
...tricky attack that the Crimson forces expect the Army to launch on Saturday, led by a diminutive Cadet named "Monk" Meyer. A triple-threater that seems destined to leave a record comparable to his famous predecessors Chris Cagle and Jack Buckler, Meyer began his meteorick career when he was substituted in the Harvard game last fall. Since then, he has kicked, passed, and run his way into the respect of every team he has faced...
...Central New England" swell the stacks hidden in the gloomy recesses of Widener, and furnish excellent material for research along such lines, if any is contemplated. They do not, however, lend either to the University Press, or to the College, that general interest and recognition which one would expect as the due of the American counterpart of Oxford and Cambridge...
...King Edward's 13-year-old nephew, Viscount Lascelles, elder son of the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, reached in his Eton schooldays last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus...
...editor, super-supervised by Lucien Hubbard. Why such a product should call for twin entrepreneurs remains mysterious, since The Longest Night is designed rather for the Saturday morning diversion of schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator, a kleptomaniac (Etienne Girardot), archery practice by a floorwalker, a couple of corpses and Ted Healy as a police sergeant...