Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when all but five of the escaped herd had been captured, was a troubled quiet. Many a worthy burgher slept out the night behind doors well-bolted and barricaded and with reason. Even the old fashioned distinction between Cambridge proper and Cambridge improper has vanished. What are we to expect next...
...managers," says Mr. William J. Bingham, who has supervised them in the past year, "is to decrease the amount they are now doing, or at least to make them discriminate between the essential and the non-important." For an athlete to drop his clothes on the floor and expect a manager to pick them up and put them in the locker is not good either for him or for the manager. The glaring waste of time among candidates who hung about the teams for the bare chance of performing some trivial service whereby they might ingratiate themselves with their superiors...
...Shakspere's plots", he said, "often limp and stagger in a lamentable way. The motives do not always adequately account for the actions of the characters. However, these are of little consequence, for only children read Shakspere for the story, and we cannot expect him to invent his own plot...
...Lowell, will sail for Europe this afternoon on the Cunard liner, Ansonia, at 3 o'clock from the piers of the Cunard Company at East Boston. The trip will be on matters of University business, and will include a visit to Oxford and the University of Paris. They expect to return to this country on March...
...Washington has given rise to much political wisdom. It has been said that they have organized a "constructive program" for the Democratic party to put into action. Such of their plans as are known or may be guessed are interesting because they indicate where the Administration forces may expect to find their outposts assailed...