Word: vigil
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...prospered during its vacation vigil on its pine tree behind University Hall, with holiday banquest adding over a pound to its already well-filled frame, a check-up revealed yesterday...
...overlooks the grounds, they ran into a snag: leases on the houses there, owned by the Duke of Westminster, prohibit tenants from creating any nuisance for their royal neighbors, so tenants were timid about cameramen. But a few lensmen talked their way to the rooftops and began a long vigil that lasted through eight rainy, cold days, and the record...
...milling crowd grinned self-consciously and held its ground. For a week or more, curious and sentimental Londoners had gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace to gaze curiously at a third-floor window, wait aimlessly for a while, drift away and return again to renew the vigil...
London's publicans were setting up their nightly cry of "Time, gentlemen" and were just closing when the long vigil at the palace gates was at last rewarded. At 10:10 p.m., from out of the palace bustled a young, blue-clad page. He whispered a word to the bobby at the gate. The bobby nodded. "It's a boy," he announced solemnly, then, throwing his chest out and his head full back, he shouted for all to hear; "A Prince has been born...
...newspapermen will be on hand to interpret election returns as they come in during the Harvard Radio Network's all night election vigil tonight...