Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From a corner of the Opera House that no one had noticed broke the strains of Schubert's Ave Maria. The audience sank back in anticipation, the committee on the stage retired to one side, and, having sat fuming at delay in her dressing room, on came Isadora Duncan to the center of the stage where she stayed for a few moments, bent in wonder over the image of a Christ child. Behind her tripped a sweep of dancing children to join the admiration of the miracle which Isadora's art had conjured?then the music swelled and a mystic...
...House. Insurgent tactics in the House are similar to those in the Senate. But there is a prospect of more delay in organization. Frederick Huntington Gillett, Speaker of the House during the last two Congresses, is the gentleman at whose expense the game may be played. For the last 30 years, continuously, he has represented the Second District of Massachusetts in Congress, a thoroughly seasoned parliamentarian, valuable to the regular Republicans and not very objectionable to other groups. The Democrats will nominate to run against him, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic floor leader in the last House...
Importance is added to this possible delay of organization in the House, because, unless there be unanimous consent to suspend the rules, the President's message cannot be read to that body until it is organized...
...delay in making the attempt to restore the monarchy is caused only by disagreement as to who shall be called to the Imperial throne. The Kaiser is unlikely because of his universal unpopularity; the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm was believed to have again positively refused the honor; Crown Prince Rupprecht, virtual King of Bavaria, is barred because he is a Catholic; the latest known plan was to place the eldest son of the ex-Crown Prince (Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf) on the throne with a regency for Friedrich Wilhelm...
With nearly 55,000 tickets to this afternoon's game to be examined by the Stadium ticket takers between 12.30 and 2 o'clock, special arrangements have been made by the Harvard Athletic Association to eliminate delay and congestion as much as possible...