Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overthrow of the Japanese Constitution, an upset which loomed as a distinct possibility, the aged Prince Saionji came clop-clopping on his wooden sandals back into Japan's political arena last week. Crisis factors which perplexed this last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen" and made Prince Saionji delay for three whole days his advice to the Sublime Emperor included...
...from a courteous boy in the box office, gave them to another boy, were ushered to seats by a third. The show failed to begin. "Hey, when does the show start," shouted an impatient patron. One of the boys stepped from behind the curtain. "There has been a slight delay due to a mechanical defect," he announced. "Please be patient." So patient were the patrons that not for an hour did they discover that the boys and the receipts ($4.75) had gone...
...knee breeches fluttered a bundle of papers up to the clerk's desk as the Senator, his voice low and weary, explained to his colleagues that they would have to wait for printed copies. Two days later Senator Smoot presented his committee's report (again apologizing for the delay in supplying members with printed copies). Two days after that he formally opened debate with a painstaking, unexciting speech about his billion-dollar tax bill, supposed to balance the Budget and preserve Public Credit...
Last week, a month after the House's famed rising vote, the prospect of the 1933 Budget being brought to balance by Congress was never more remote. Lobbyists had taken the place of leaders. An atmosphere of confusion and delay permeated the Capitol...
...shirt, and was greeted mainly by hisses & jeers. He made several futile attempts to connect with the bull, evidently trying to save his handsome cow-pony from being gored, and finally retired from the ring, with pandemonium at his heels. . . . He finally returned and with scarcely any delay rode straight at the bull, who was meeting him half way. In this contact the pony was gored in the chest section and in the encounter Pickett was able to obtain his position for throttling the bull. . . . At no time was Pickett on the bull's back nor did he ever...