Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus the two major parties appear to be contentedly perpetuating the aftable policy of agreement on every important point. For the two eastern contingents are almost allied on this latest issue. If the rapprochement continues, we may have complete accord holding forth the prospect of Volstcadian repeal...
...international matter. But, Mr. Milton gave it an added flavor. He was the comparatively impecunious young apprentice attorney who had obtained, for Abby, a suspended sentence when she had been nabbed for the second time by an irreverent traffic patrolman. The city room of the American buzzed at the prospect of an old-fashioned beat: 'Daughter of Oil King's Son to Wed Humble Speed Case Benefactor...
These would be absurd quibbles in a picture where every other prospect pleased and lived up to expectations, but those failures were typical. The Campus Flirt compared to "Variety", the German film, which is touring the backstreets of Boston, as a road show of "Uncle Tem's Cabin" compares to Iolanthe. Any one of Mack Sennet's directors could have thrown together a better chorus of track ladies with ten minutes notice, and provided better comedy than was afforded here...
...chivalry by employing his brains in war; adopted entrenchment and always watched fights alertly from a safely distant hill. Militarily secure, he accomplished great pilgrimages back to the holy well, Zemzem, at Mecca. Before his death from pleurisy in 632, all Arabia was Allah's footstool, with good prospect of Syria, Byzantium and India being lined up for accessory furniture...
...spend five years, came Explorer Donald B. MacMillan last week. He had been investigating ruins and legends problematically indicative of Norse settlements in America a thousand years ago. Maine coastal towns turned out to welcome their state's special hero. The Field Museum of Chicago rejoiced at the prospect of receiving a 1,500-pound walrus carcass and other specimens...