Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Millerand moved surely and boldly, revealing himself as the velvet hand within Poincaré's mailed fist. He announced that M. Poincare would form a new Cabinet. In a statement from the Elysee Palace (Executive Mansion), M. Millerand showed that the radicals need expect no change: The general lines of the French policy cannot possibly be changed for any other reason than the clearly expressed will of the country. The President of the Republic has every confidence that M. Poincaré, whose name symbolizes this policy, will form a new Cabinet which can continue this policy of firmness...
...chance- a possibility which the President of the Republic does not expect-it becomes impossible for M. Poincaré to constitute a Cabinet, the Chief of State will call to power only a Cabinet resolutely determined to direct its general policy along the lines indicated above...
Last week Bucharest was in a frenzy over the rebuff. Paunchy Prime Minister Bratiano had informed the monarchs that they could not got to Rome under Mussolini's humiliating conditions. In the Rumanian Parliament, Foreign Minister Jon Duca, inveighed as follows: "We did not expect that the visit of the royal family, intended to strengthen the relations between the two countries, would be associated with dirty financial interests." Loud cheers...
...fourth Sunday in May, Episcopalians expect to complete their task of raising $3,000,000 for a hospital and other mission buildings in Tokyo...
PRANCING NIGGER-Ronald Firbank -Brentano ($2.00). With such a title, the reader knows what to expect. He is not disappointed, for he is soon afloat in a sea of fantastic nonsense. Purporting to be a study of British West Indian life and manners, this book leaves one with a dizzying sense of relief that the British West Indies are far away. Carl Van Vechten's whimsical preface proclaims Firbank to be the "only authentic master of the light touch, a man who might be writing with his eyelashes or the tips of his polished finger-nails." Which...