Word: loitering
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...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...
...throws into sharper relief the veil of darkness which has clung like the Eleusinian mysteries over the social ideal so cannily supported by a foreign financial power. For with no uncertain show of favoritism, select groups of men have already been let in on the secret while the rest loiter about the doors of the exclusive House Plan Club and wait with a degree of hopefulness such as attended the coming of the Ford...
...barricade of sandbags and barbed wire was erected last week by perspiring young French Royalists outside the Paris office of their obstreperous news organ, L'Action Française. Parisians stopped to loiter, to tip one another the wink, to shrug and pass on. They knew that fiery, effervescent Royalist Editor Leon Daudet must be preparing with dramatic Daudeterie to resist arrest. A sentence of five months in jail "for defaming the police" has hung over him these two years; and only a fortnight ago he refused once more to set a time convenient to himself to serve...
...which caused further blurring of communication; and two nights running, ships in distress on the storm-tossed Atlantic silenced all stations with their stark, tragic S.O.S.† The European program was flashed from stations in England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera singers were obliged to loiter over their beer all night or scramble out of bed long before dawn to warble into the microphone songs that were to be heard in the U. S. between 11 and midnight. Mme. Clara Novello-Davies, in Manhattan, and her son, Composer Ivan Novello, in London, simultaneously attempted to lead...