Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over do the same thing and the play is perfectly harmless; so why should anyone object? As for saying that England knows him for what he is-yes, they do. They know him as the greatest ambassador England ever had-and the most popular Prince-and don't expect him to be an Angel from Heaven! He works harder than most people suppose; why shouldn't he play sometimes...
...every German who is not soaked with black-red-gold or sold to mammon, veil his head. Then the Field Marshal President is become a danger for the national will. His name does not belong under this treaty. That at least does he owe to his fellow-warriors. We expect the Field Marshal not to sign but to fight...
...coming to long-merited recognition as a centre of culture and the arts, there is still another reason behind the great pianist's visit. Hagerstown is near Washington, D.C.; and people who want to hear Paderewski can easily get over by bus or motor. In fact, if they expect to hear him this winter, this is just what they will have to do, for Paderewski will not play in Washington...
...another attempt at settlement. She is the only great nation that has not come to terms, and the flow of private U. S. credit into Italy after the Italian agreement is an inducement to similar action by the French. Also the French press intimated that France would now expect terms as lenient as the Italian...
...Columbia. Are four years in college a waste of time? Would it not be better to convert the college into two year advanced preparatory school, concentrate there on cultural development, and then send a south law school, business school or architectural school? No, said President Hopkins, as one might expect. Yes, said Dean Hawkes, equally consistent with the institution he represented. The junior college and the professional school of a large university, said he, will be the education of the efficient future...