Word: predict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glass Key (Paramount) is a figure of speech employed by Ed Beaumont (George Rait) to predict the situation in which his political boss, Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold), will find himself if he continues to dress up in silk hat and cane, trade his power for the daughter of a re-form Senator seeking reelection. Sleek, sardonic, imperturbable, Ed Beaumont follows Opal Madvig, Paul's daughter, to a midnight rendezvous with Taylor Henry, son of the Senator, gives the youth a kick in the shin and takes Opal home. Later, grimly stalking the streets, he finds Taylor Henry...
...billion francs or $660,000,000. Under the new emergency-powers law Premier Laval, assuming that Parliament shortly adjourns for the summer as it was expected to do last week, has four and a half months in which to exercise a fiscal free hand. His best friends dared not predict, could only wish him luck...
...With our current annual expenditures of some $450,000,000 and the liquidation of outstanding obligations under term insurance and the payment of the service certificates, it seems safe to predict that by the year 1945 we will have expended...
...amounts to the inevitable disintegration of capitalistic society, and ironically points out, in "So You're a Parlor Pink," that the nice, humane, middle-class intellectuals who toy with communistic theories contribute materially to their own subversion; he concludes on a note of cynicism wherein he ventures to predict that "during the fundamental crisis" a few Parlorites may go with the revolution, but that the majority will complete the cycle of their moral collapse by following their bank deposits...
Lawyer Neylan has a real affection for his client, and Hearst often sneaks up on this blindly sentimental side when debates between them become warm. Dopesters predict that when the aging publisher dies, Jack Neylan will head the regency that tells Hearst's sons and Hearst's editors what to do. Yet some of his warmest admirers regret the Hearst connection, feel that Neylan's own capacities would have carried him farther, less equivocally...