Word: expected
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...systematic botanist, this region, which has never been glaciated or was glaciated only during an early glacial advance, is dramatically interesting; for, as we are now learning to expect, in such regions there are hundreds of plants now living which are so conservative that they have never migrated into the adjacent regions recently covered by Wisconsin...
Mourned Mr. Hopkins: ". . . The men who voted to bring me here, the men who know me to be honest, who know the record of these six years is without stain . . . I did expect that they would treat me at least as well as a common prisoner." He demanded specific charges, and an opportunity to answer them...
...plot involves a war between the U. S. and Switzerland caused by a tariff on milk chocolate, but the absurdities that you expect from this idea are never quite realized. Furthermore, the costumes were apparently designed by someone who realized that lengthier skirts were in order, even upon the stage, but did not know how to compensate for non-exposure. The settings exhibit various unhappy juxtapositions of color...
...course in Chaucer, required a comment on one of two passages. The first was a quotation in rather difficult German and the second one in fairly simple French. Granted that the language requirements demand a reading knowledge of either one or the other, it seems a little unfair to expect that a student who had taken or was planning to take French 2 or German 1a would thereby be enabled to surmount a sight translation...
Mary Ellis's Laetitia is an exciting and frightening creation; Basil Sydney's La Ruse is morbid and passionate; the lesser parts are splendidly done. Yet only in the last act do these characters produce the witty, sardonic tensions which you expect of them. The early moments of the play remain listless while Playwright Mayer's dialog is getting up momentum. Waterloo Bridge. Close by Waterloo railway station in London is a bridge upon whose parapet are posted sooty little strumpets waiting for soldiers returning home on leave. A German air raid sends them scurrying to their...