Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow one may expect the breathless query--did you see Chaplin plain? A lady harpist, who has also the distinction of being married to the man who illustrated "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Koussevitsky, and Charles Spencer Chaplin, have united to form the complete glorification of Sanders Theatre...
...expect to have the clay and cinders down pretty soon, to pave it; although I understand the students around here are going to have it paved with gold. I guess they could all right!" This last sally pleased the foreman immensely and he turned the pulpit over to Dennis Enright, veteran grounds keeper, who stood by ready to reinforce the dialogue...
...Mencken, who has recently visited that South which he has so long belabored, gave it, through the columns of the New York World, a much better grade than the naughty pupil had any reason to expect. What is sentimentally called "the old South," what Mencken calls the late Confederacy, he reports is dying, although the old guard is still hanging on. It will not be long, however, before the doctrine of death to all ministers, Y. M. C. A. secretaries. A boy Scouts and college professor is firmly inculcated. Perhaps the Southerners are even subscribing to the American Mercury...
...when the occasion arises. This will work out so that an applicant with a good school record will not fail of entrance to Yale simply because he may "flunk" a single subject in his finals. The ending of the September "finals" has come largely because the University does not expect particularly good results form a school-boy who has wasted his time during the school year and hurries through a summer school to make up for it . . . We can look on these changes as long steps forward to the day when entrance examinations will be of loss importance even than...
...Crimson does not expect to remain an isolated champion of the Banner of the Seven Veils and the Bell which Rings in the Dark. Some other official spokesman for the ethereal may quickly come to the aid of this lady whom the Albanian Comus would discredit. Until then the Crimson stands alone Margery, essence, quintessence, undefiled, the local pid to notoriety the face which launched a thousand messages she must not be defiled unless Congress would really like to investigate...