Word: queue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system of rationing by food cards was working so cumbrously in German cities last week that standing in long queues before food shops became the rule. Special red cards, permitting the holder to go at once to the head of the queue, were issued by the Nazi Party Peoples Welfare Department to "pregnant women, the lame and mothers rich in children...
...Harrison began to feel he had struck a shockingly wrong note. Sputtered he: "The London press have made a mountain out of this molehill. I made a semi-jocular remark to a local press correspondent to the effect that the Siegfried Line is not calculated to make concert goers queue up for a performance of the Siegfried Idyll. I am thinking of putting the matter in the hands of my solicitors...
...already beginning to crowd the well of the House. Jostling each other to get at the fountain pen which Aunt Mary handed to the impatient signers, the House members became so boisterous that the sergeant at arms was called on to exert his authority, marshaled them into a queue which gradually wound half way around the chamber. So many members were in so much of a hurry to put their names on the petition that Speaker Bankhead, after calling hopelessly for order, was forced to suspend regular business. Whenever a Southerner or a Republican joined the line, supporters...
Meanwhile sad old Founder William Childs is still a restaurant man in Bernardsville, N. J. There, as a hobby, he runs The Old Mill, a cozy restaurant in a real Colonial house, which is famed for good food and where there is often a queue of waiting patrons...
...unveil a statue, thence drive across a borough or two to speak at a civic luncheon, dictating orders as he goes to a secretary who can telephone them back to city hall while he is speaking. An hour later he may be back at his office to see a queue of people who have been waiting for hours, interview a deputy commissioner, perform a marriage for an eager friend, rush off to inspect a swimming pool, a hospital, a ferryboat or a street accident...