Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly do not expect ever to run for public office again. I have had all I can stand of it. I have given a quarter of a century of probably the best years of my life to it. I will never lose my interest in public affairs, that is a sure thing. But as far as running for office again is concerned-that's finished...
Notre Dame has a famous football coach, Knute Rockne, who never turns out feeble teams. Yet he has off-seasons and he remarked last week, "I am not worrying this year-I only worry when I have a good team and expect to see it win." Rockne moved about the country followed not by one Notre Dame team but by several; he arrived in Manhattan with three last week and sent one of them onto the field in the Yankee Stadium where 80,000 people were watching, to play against the Army. Notre Dame has lost two games this year...
...prepared to pull the unveiling cord, he was conscious that a crowd by no means wholly friendly surged around him. Raising his deep timbred voice in sonorous appeal the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts cried: "After a lifetime of bitter struggle, Emile Combes declared: 'I never expect justice from my adversaries!' May this monument assuage those bitter words. May it be said that the enemies of Emile Combes did not pursue their grudge beyond his grave...
...trash I expect to carry me through...
...keen political speech. Its most effective part by far was that overtone of Republican formality. To his earlier rebukes. Spokesman Hughes added: "The whole tone of Governor Smith's campaign has been far below what the country had a right to expect...