Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican Presidential possibilities discreetly, anxiously, even feverishly await the day when President Coolidge decides whether or not he is going to be a candidate for a third term. Administrationists in Washington, D. C., say certainly; farm blocers in the Middle West say not a chance; the President does...
...House having logrolled the rivers-and-harbors bill through, Senatorial enemies of this Illinois River put their backs up with redoubled determination. The lobbies were as full of gentlemen from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota declaring that the bill must await a Supreme Court decision on Great Lakes levels, as they were of gentlemen from Illinois and other states with fingers in the pie, led by Representative Martin Madden, who swore they would hold the House until the Senate acted...
...bear my personal fate with resignation ... I do not care what my foes say about me. I do not recognize them as my judges. . . . He (God) knows why He subjects me to this test. I shall bear everything with patience and await whatsoever God still holds in store...
...fell respectively to Philip W. Bunnell of Scranton, Pa., Hannibal Hamlin of Brooklyn, James G. Butler of Hartford, Conn., and George F. Scherer* of Washington, D. C. John J. Pierson of Manhattan had the hardihood to refuse the accolades of Wolf's Head and Elihu Club, preferring to await election to "Bones" or "Keys"- which...
...like harnessed rockets and drop down like oiled meteors. Lounge rooms, gorgeously decorated, allure business-weary limbs with divans and sofas and curving love-chairs; while upstairs, opening upon corridors carpeted with rugs into which feet sink as into perfumed snow, bridal suites and grand suites and supersuites await their imminent occupants with tapestries of many various colors, and furniture beyond the dreams of Park Ave. All these, the gilt dining-rooms clotted with music, the cool oasis of the lobby, and the long line of brilliantly-lighted cages wherein clerks work busily, adding up bills and putting diamonds away...