Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carrying the idea into later life one could well refuse to pay one's income tax--on the grounds that one was a committee. And a committee's policy is always to wait till the next session or the next President. Everything would be so easy--if one were a committee...
...cardinal's hat is suspended by golden wires over the high altar in his cathedral. There it remains till it accompanies his body to the tomb...
Morocco is the only place where M. Sarraut's activities will have free scope. He waits till M. Lyautey ends his colonial career, either of his own free will or by pressure. The French Government has found that, so far, the smallest hint of M. Lyautey's replacement is received with strong protests...
...which may have had something to do with it. It began with Heywood Broun, who "said a few graceful things of no special import and then fled craftily into the night." And it dragged on through all the other twelve, with various victims rising and stealing toward the door, till at length "the gaps in the audience made the room look like an old comb with half its teeth gone. The faithful remainder sat weary, wilted, their yawns breaking from control, their eyes turning glassy in their grim determination not to let them close in slumber?so stunned that when...
...next day he listened, from 9:30 a.m. till 7 p.m., while Senator after Senator rose to the attack. The strongest assault on his position was made oy Senator Henri de Jouvenal, proprietor of the Matin, who pointed out that the British economies had not required decrees for their accomplishment. Finally at 7 o'clock, facing a talked-out and hungry Senate, he rose and announced his intention of delivering a two-hour speech. He offered his hearers the choice of submitting to it then, or of waiting until after dinner. The Senate chose to dine, and returned...