Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President-How did you expect to get out of this tragedy...
...Cabinet never falls denies to Italy the benefits of periodically infusing new blood and brains into the Government. This Signor Mussolini now proposes to do by "rotating" the Ministries among able statesmen-that is, by kicking out of office, from time to time, dignified statesmen who would ordinarily expect to hold their posts until the Prime Minister himself resigned...
...kind to them. Only Nina had been sighted, early in her voyage, by the Cunarder Aquitania (TIME, July 16). Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond are in command of Nina. Their crew consists of eight young college graduates and undergraduates and a Norwegian cook. Said Mr. Root: "We rather expect to get wet. If the Nina runs into a storm, her crew will have salt water in their clothes, their food, their hair and their couch cushions...
...apartment. The owners unexpectedly return from Europe. The virgin is taken to jail. Things look bad, but they are set to rights and the virgin gets a husband in the scion of the Park Avenue owners. Said Carl Helm, critic of the New York Sun: "Of course, we may expect things like this during the hot spell, along with the hives and sunburn, the difference being that you can do something about hives and sunburn." Be that as it may, Miss Alney Alba who plays the virgin is a pleasant happening among the flea-circuses on 42nd Street...
Readers wondered who would succeed Publisher Duval, whether they might expect chit-chat or culture...