Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon should ever succeed in its campaign against the attendance of Freshmen at Boston debutantes' parties there is no knowing the ends to which hostesses may be reduced. Even though the Lampoon should fail, which is quite incredible, the hostesses seem to be drifting into difficulties. It is expected that the time is near at hand when they may institute a paging system. Then we may expect to hear in the halls of Westmorley, Claverly, and Randolph and in the lounges of clubs, pages shouting as they make the rounds. "Two sober young gentlemen for a dinner at the Somerset...
...sensed that the breeze felt crisp and joyful with youth. This was a good part of Harvard I knew, but where was Harvard? In the days that followed I passed through the yard, found it a larger and more handsome place than I had been led to expect; I entered many famous buildings; I sat in the Stadium and felt like an ant in a bath-tub. But where was Harvard? These were very important sections of it, and perhaps University 4 or Memorial Hall was nearest to the center of it, but where was the center, the essence...
...music loving man, and I would like to bid on so excellent a likeness of the greatest of contemporary musical financiers. I shall expect you, if you do offer this sketch for sale, to respect the "vested rights" of a "regular buyer," which my newsdealer will readily attest that...
...This reduction leaves a balance of $100,000,000 to be applied for reducing all other taxes, and this is not enough for a great deal of other reduction. It is not enough, for example, to allow the removal of taxes on automobiles. On the other hand, many observers expect the Committee to plan reductions which actually go beyond the $300,000,000 mark which it has agreed to. But Chairman Green expressed hope that the committee would be able to present a non-partisan tax bill that would have the support of Democrats as well as Republicans...
...opening evening the audience was obviously bewildered. It seemed to expect that at any moment the play would suddenly become Seventeen with an English accent. Such development did not take place, but the audience laughed at the wrong time just the same. Scarcely in the memory of the staunchest theatregoer has there been such a flagrant example of ill manners and incomprehensible stupidity on the part of men and women who marry and go through the other forms of presumably intelligent adulthood...