Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easier when the New Englanders commenced filtering south for the sake of the cheap mountain labor of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. And last week these bitter competitors were bid to an agape, a love feast. As they assembled at the Biltmore, they scarcely knew what to expect...
...that is quite irresistible. The story is as usual flimsy and absurd. Rex is shown making love to lovely mares of his acquaintance, running over leagues of attractively barren prairies, and avenging the Indians' murder of his owner's old father. It is, perhaps, too much to expect that the cinema will supply its animal actors with good stories when its expensive mortals must be content with so much trash. It is, however, the opinion of some cynics who go to watch cinema actors and actresses that the more they see of some people the more they love...
...first of August the brothers expect to have soothed enough minority holders to appear most circumspectly before the I. C. C. and to have fair chances of getting that body's approval to their Nickel Plate System...
Wrathful, gimlet-eyed, the warden rose in his might, furiously waved a prison menu,* sent down word they need expect no leniency, added that they would "find the mules pretty tough eating; and, anyhow, it is cheaper to buy more mules than to feed the mutineers...
...Reconstruction was influenced on one side by internal politics and on the other side by foreign politics. Neither Austria nor the League could justly expect 100 per cent satisfaction...