Word: loitering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese spinsters, too, are making hay. Hundreds of them have been hired by the Government as Peeping Thomasinas. Some of them loiter around the luxury counters of department stores, taking notes on their sisters who squander yen on beauty creams instead of patriotically investing in Government bonds. Other, luckier maidens, steal at dusk to vantage points near geisha-houses, machiai (waiting-houses) and licensed prostitute quarters, and there scribble down the automobile license plates of bloods who waste their money during the national emergency. Sometimes, when the young scalawags arrive by taxi, the guardians of national thrift have to slip...
...time's nick the wife of the new U. S. Ambassador to France was escorted into the courtyard of the Elysée, permitted to loiter there. Up whirled a motorcade of twinkling French Government cars, disgorged the U. S. Embassy's entire corps of secretaries escorting impeccably turned-out Jesse Isidor Straus...
...high in Manhattan's Chanin Building. The front of the door is panelled with richly carved Oriental wood which, says its owner, once belonged to an Emperor. To it is thumbtacked a hand lettered sign: "Can see no one by appointment. Phone Murray Hill 2-7889.* Kindly don't loiter in hall. Hershfield...