Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obliged to pay 4¾%, but in December, coincident with a break in the stock market he was able to market an issue at 4¼%, although there was not the customary oversubscription of double or more. The March offering was taken to indicate that the Treasury does not expect "cheaper" money for some months. Last week the Treasury made public the fact that it was considering the plan of selling non-interest-bearing Treasury bills. These securities would be offered to the public not quarterly but as the Government needed money. They would fall due at income tax dates...
...expect any serious trouble. Information given me leads to the belief that a great economic change without bloodshed is in progress...
...plays a doctor. Spirituals, nicely sung, occur, as advertised, 30 times in the hour and ten minutes Hearts in Dixie takes to run. The voodoo doings, the cotton pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa, is repetitious. All is redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest...
Lucky Boy (Tiffany-Stahl). George Jessel's clear, vigorous singing of three theme songs better than the average prevents his first sound-picture from being as tiresome as you would expect a picture to be in which 1) a night-club entertainer, getting a telegram telling of his mother's illness, sings a song entitled "My Mother's Eyes"; 2) a girl is saved from embarrassment in a matter concerning a jewel not given her by her husband; 3) the entertainer makes a hit on Broadway. Better advised on technique than narrative, Tiffany-Stahl, a comparatively small...
...Industrielle, French industrial magazine, has been beating the tocsin, sounding the alarm, warning French automakers to beware of increased U. S. competition. Inasmuch as total French motor car production-both trucks and passenger cars-amounts to about 250,000 cars per year, whereas U. S. automobile makers expect a 1,000,000 increase over 1928 production, it is obvious that many a new Ford will be competing with Citroen sales...