Word: bide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic Christendom for the supremacy of the Church. His Holiness knows that, though he will go some day to his eternal rest, another and another pope will rise to continue the steady pressure of Catholicism upon the governments of Mexico. If Calles is a second Juarez the Papacy can bide the coming of a second Diaz. Events of a most crucial week in the eternal struggle: Race against Time. During the last hours before the Calles decrees expelling the clergy from their churches came into effect last week Catholic prelates in Mexico continued their recent "race against time" to baptize...
...feet. Once, a mountainside had rushed out of the fog so close in front that the plane's right landing wheel missed a snow bank by inches. At Barrow, clouds and a split propeller had frustrated three attempted return flights. Wilkins advised Major Lanphier, his second-in-command, to bide at Fairbanks for good weather before going to join him in their big biplane, the Detroiter. The Barrow base was nearly complete for flights over the Arctic Sea to terra incognita...
...Bide Dudley- "He could tell that old poke about the chicken crossing the road and take six encores and three bows on it. That's how funny Ed Wynn...
...entered hilariously into the spirit of this trick effect, venting against the actors all the exasperation with which the play had filled them up to that point. When volunteers were asked to come forward and protest, Heywood Broun, critic of The New York World, rolled prodigiously forward, accompanied by Bide Dudley of The Evening World. The rotund Broun seemed as happy as a freshman at a college lark. Afterwards, declaring that "the very ineptitude of the piece rises to magnificence," he admitted that he would not have missed it for the world...
...defunct German Imperial Army would answer to a Monarchist bugle call. The event in Munich shows that the possibility of Prince Rupprecht being officially proclaimed König von Baiern (King of Bavaria) is not remote. Berlin circles had it that the Prince will bide his time until he can secure nomination as Kaiser over the whole Reich...