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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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East of this room is the President's private office, or study, for generations the old Cabinet room. Here on the flag-flanked "Resolute" desk, a long-ago gift from Queen Victoria, wait the morning papers. It is a cheery room, with bookcases marching up the walls. Here the President receives his favored visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...said: "It is a purely economic truth that the talking movies will replace the legitimate drama inside of ten years. A theatrical manager is forced to spend between fifty and eighty thousand dollars on a production, can show it in only one city at a time, and then must wait several months before his returns come in. But a motion picture producer is able to make a film and a sound record and to distribute the show for presentation in 70 cities at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jane Cowl Gives Reasons for Disastrous Dramatic Season in Gotham--Has Acted Juliet 698 Times, Often Seven a Week | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

Alden Bennington is on the eve of his marriage to a woman he admires and respects but does not love. He is called to the telephone and thrown into constemation on hearing the girl he really loves warn him she would never marry, and would wait forever for him. Truly a pleasant thing to tell a man the evening he is about to "embark on the greatest adventure in life...

Author: By S. P. D., | Title: Four of the Season's Novels | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...performed brilliantly at center on the University sextet this season, was first reported disabled for the season, but his rapid recovery has insured his return to the first lineup within a short time. He was on the ice for a short time Monday but was advised to wait until today to return for regular practice. The Dartmouth game on February 16 will probably see him in the opening lineup if he is not able to perform against the St. Nicholas Club sextet on the coming Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARRISON BACK IN GAME AFTER ENFORCED ABSENCE | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

...wait a little. Then. . . .Joe. I toldya never mind that guy. Ignore him. What's a dirty look? Don't soil your hands on him. . . .So I let him wait a little that guy'll be going pretty soon now and then I gave him the old line about I couldn't afford it. And that's right. I can't, and keep the bus too. Sure I have. Oh, I sold the Ford to Louie before Christmas. And the old man asks me if I want to live at college next year or get another...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

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