Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...membership. Attendance upon church-services was his established and regular habit, rather than an infrequent practice, as you imply. The statement that "he was never known to pray in church" is a gratuitous assumption and a slur upon his sincerity as a participant in public worship. What would you expect him to do?interrupt the preacher and offer to lead the congregation aloud in prayer...
...expect a brass advertisement to sell steel and iron pipe? That would be brass on my part...
Admiral Magruder: "I don't contemplate any protest. I expect to go without making a fuss...
...shall sit on the 50 yard line with a red helmet and if it is a pleasant day I expect to wear silk pants...
...Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, in an address before the Schoolmasters Club of Massachusetts, speaks openly of the "laugh that is sweeping the country" as a result of the Mayor's activities; and although Professor Hart denies that he is in the pay of a foreign power, on one can expect Mayor Thompson to believe such a patent effort at deceit...