Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After much delay and many conjectures, formal announcement was finally made at the White House of the President's itinerary on his forthcoming trip. Leaving Washington on June 20, he will travel directly to St. Louis, where he will make his first speech on the following day. His speaking schedule includes 18 other stops exclusive of any addresses he may deliver in Alaska...
...slowly and the crowd swelled before the theatre. The people who had been searched trooped back to check their cloaks. In the cloakroom stood the same single old fellow of yore. Nobody had thought of putting on extra help for the wholesale cloak checking. Between these two sources of delay only a few hundred people got into the auditorium. The crowd grew restive, as excitable Italian crowds will. Then two young soldiers straight from the provinces searched a beautiful lady in such fashion that she and her escort grew furious. A fight started, and the crowd got more excited...
...conference at Lausanne struck another snag last week when the Ottoman debt came up for discussion. The various Allied representatives had to refer the question to their home governments; thus a delay was occasioned...
Owing to an unfortunate delay of the visitors in the vicinity of the South Station, the game, which was scheduled for 3.30, did not begin until 7.45. The score does not represent the actual strength of the opposing teams, because a number of Yale home runs were not counted when the players failed to touch first base. The game was played in the Esculapian Room of the Harvard Club of Boston. It was called in the first half of the ninth inning on account of darkness...
...special effort will be made to welcome the newcomers; they will be introduced to their surroundings and will have plenty of time to become acclimated before the actual routine begins. In this way the all-important first few days can be used to best advantage, and the usual delay and waste will be avoided. No doubt the President feels that early-season practice is as desirable and as justifiable in scholastic matters as it is in football...