Word: queues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, a queue of 100 people ran from the University Squash Courts on Linden Street around the corner to the Phillips Book Store entrance. A total wait of one hour and a half was encountered here...
...like to see Mr. Strachey† queue-in' and scrapin' for every bit of fat and soap. It's the women wot 'ave the 'ard time these days...
These feminine plaints soughed from the microphone when Tory Candidate John Reginald Bevins jumped from his "Voice of the People" sound truck and let the people give tongue. Five minutes later Arthur James Irvine, Labor's six-foot candidate, strode up to the same housewives' queue. While he pumped hands all round, the women cheered and patted his back...
...rule of the day in America, actually there is no voice of the people at the helm of affairs.") While other nations were still waiting to be allotted suitable Embassy quarters in the crowded capital, newly arrived Mrs. Pandit went straight to the head of the diplomatic queue, was promptly given a well-kept brick residence by Soviet officials...
...friends Fat Anguish, Skinny Anguish, The Round End, The Big Foot, The Onion, The Tart (pastry), Silence and The Curtains. The cast is now looking for a home on Broadway for fall occupancy, but may have difficulty finding one. The play, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue (Desire Caught by the Tail), is concerned chiefly with food and sex. The Tart is onstage almost continually in nothing but a pair of stockings. And for the most part Picasso writes as he paints. An example...