Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. John ("Jack") Linder, 13, of No. 1340 Third Ave., Manhattan; of pneumonia and delay. A police emergency squad was called to take him from his fourth-floor home to a hospital; the delay was considerable because John Linder weighed 375 pounds. Last summer, he weighed only 341 pounds when he easily won the prize for fattest boy and ate his share of 15,000 quarts of ice cream, 10,000 quarts of milk and five tons of crackers at a Tammany children's party in Central Park (TIME, June...
...only in case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice President; inability, that is, "to discharge the powers and duties of the said office." But Taylor was not unable to serve thus as President. If some emergency had arisen demanding presidential action without delay, Taylor no doubt would have taken the necessary oath-his first duty as President-on Sunday. And if Taylor had really been unable to serve, the Vice President, Millard Fillmore, was next in the line of succession- not Atchison. S. A. T.ORRANCE Yonkers, N. Y. Bartholomew Columbus' City Sirs...
Admittedly the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine" may find it necessary to delay his retirement, perhaps for months; but last week, as the Chamber and Senate convened, rumor insisted that M. Poincaré would shortly groom Le Dauphin for promotion by appearing with him in the Chamber and sponsoring a vast new project, which M. Tardieu has devised and which is called "The Program of Realization...
When asked whether he considered the Vitaphone a step forward in musical presentation. Mr. Werrenrath said that he thought it surpassed the radio in its possibilities. He further stated that he had just received notice from the Vitaphone Corporation stating that it would be necessary to delay his tentative engagement with them for some months, since their equipment was undergoing such radical changes every day that they had decided to defer all engagements until the machines could be more adapted to the new inventions which were constantly altering them...
...spite of superficial resemblances, she was the very opposite of her most dangerous enemy-the weaving spider of the Escurial. Both were masters of dissimulation and lovers of delay; but the leaden foot of Philip was the symptom of a dying organism, while Elizabeth temporized for the contrary reason-because vitality can afford to wait. The fierce old hen sat still, brooding over the English nation, whose pullulating energies were coming swiftly to ripeness and unity under her wings. She sat still; but every feather bristled; she was tremendously alive...