Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that I can say is that we will have a navy if you, in civil life, do some acting. Then we'll get along mighty fine. Mr. Mayor, I did not expect to have to make a speech. We are here with the greatest of pleasure after two years and I hope that my officers and men all enjoy the hospitality of this city as much as I have. Your hospitality is well known. The men are from all parts of the country. They have been working very hard for the last three months and I believe they enjoyed...
...humans dared to hope their answer might be "Yes." Last week the Commission answered in the words of its President, "Not yet." Said President Dr. Jonkheer J. Loudon, sturdy Netherlander: "It is evident that the world political situation is not yet ripe. . . . We must prepare public opinion not to expect wonders at once. . . . Discussion has shown that an agreement cannot be reached until public opinion in many lands has drawn nearer to a common focus, permitting governments to modify their positions. . . ." Progress. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, recipient of the first Wilson "Peace Prize"* (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) and British delegate...
...days when there were more kings than there are now, royalty was a glittering prerogative, but it had proportionate difficulties. Now, when the kingly office has become more simple with the rise of prime ministers and presidents, it would be only natural to expect that life for the scion of a reigning house would be a comparatively simple matter. But it seems that the increase of unconventionality has brought a new set of problems that make that life of a prince a delicate matter. The Prince of Wales, the most prominent of the younger royal set, having substituted a felt...
...McCormick, who is in charge of the tests has so aptly put it. "These tests are not a matter of vanity, but of some business logic. We offer an exceptional opportunity in exchange for personality, ambition, and interest. We expect 200 men to report for preliminary examinations at Harvard...
...fair to become the sensation of the literary year," said a Ladies' Home Journal advertisement in October, 1925. The article, thus heralded, appeared: it was neither rowdy nor pornographic. It was the well-mannered and suave memoirs of John Barrymore. Titillatable females who had been led to expect red-hot nights increased the circulation of the Ladies' Home Journal and were undoubtedly disappointed...