Word: expecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Close Harmony (Paramount). John V. A. Weaver wrote most of the dialog and Elsie Janis the story of this picture. Designed with no higher aim than to give Buddy (Charles) Rogers a chance to play the saxophone, it turned out better than you would expect. Nancy Carroll splits up a vaudeville team by flirting with each member in turn so that Rogers can get their booking. Best shot: vaudeville love in the back seat...
...evening by men whose afternoons must otherwise be dedicated to laboratory work. The example of Dartmouth goes to show that evening laboratory study is entirely practical and not beyond the range of possibility. Where apparently no insurmountable difficulty stands in the path of progress, it seems but reasonable to expect that minor details can and should be arranged to provide for the interests of no small number of students. A move to bring longer laboratory hours to Harvard will but increase the value of the material additions being made for the study of science...
...Then the Mayflower people came to see me. After looking over their rooms I accepted their proposition. ... I didn't haggle. ... I pay my bills regularly and expect to pay them every month I live here. Nobody's giving me anything...
Chicago doctors pay $15,000 to $20,000 for their education. They expect good income after that investment. Public or semi-public institutions hurt business for private practitioners. Hence Chicago doctors have long yammered against the Public Health Institute. Last week...
...hundreds of miles without solid cause or durable consequence; a war with little valour and no mercy." The Significance. In the preface to his ebullient history Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill insists that "all the opinions expressed are purely personal and commit no one but myself." Far from expecting tact in the pronouncements of his public men, the Englishman relishes spirited aspersions hurled from high office. Especially does he expect "Winnie" Churchill, proverbial playboy - poohbah of British politics - to say his bitter say against Americans and Bolsheviks, and to sing his little song for whatever policy is momentarily...