Word: waited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small but interested audience assembled at the meeting of the Harvard Union last evening. Men seemed diffident about accepting the offices, the assignment of which was the object of the meeting. W. C. Wait, '82, was re-elected president for the ensuing year; H. Putnam, '83, vice-president; E. A. Hibbard, '84, was chosen secretary, and E. S. Middleton, '85, treasurer. The chair postponed the appointment of the executive committee until the next meeting. The reading room committee was re-elected. The following is the treasurer's report; Dr. - Balance, $9.85; received from Harv. Leg., .85; assessments, $15.50; from reading...
...with attempted dignity]. - Here are a few of the things that will be required of you. "To wait upon the table, take care of three children, help at the ironing, know how to flute [aside] (though I can't tell, for the life of me, what that is. I suppose its some musical thing for the children), dust the parlors, do the sewing. In the spare moments you will be ready to read aloud to my mother, and to wheel the perambulator. However [slyly], I don't think that will be very hard work, for the policeman on our block...
...accustomed to having everything made subservient to our whims that if our slightest suggestion fail to meet with instantaneous notice, we cry out that our privileges are being curtailed, our rights infringed upon. Our virtuous indignation so blinds us that we do not wait to investigate the facts involved, but rush headlong into violent upbraidings of those whom we consider the authors of the supposed wrong. The recent complaints with regard to the hours for closing the Gymnasium are a case in point. An interview with Dr. Sargent clears up the whole matter. The real reason for the present regulation...
...Just wait till I get settled," whispered the quadruped, as he curled himself cosily in the coal-shovel...
...Ibex moved towards the door. "Oh, wait! let me read you some out of this," said the Lamprey, holding up a small but formidable pamphlet...