Word: waited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wait long to make felt the influence of his recent investments in New York Central. For last week the New York Central directors who control N. Y. C.'s most important subsidiary, the Big Four (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway), elected Fred J. Fisher a Big Four director. It was freely predicted he would become a N. Y. C. director next month...
Instead of having fortune seekers wait at the barriers of the new diamond fields near Lichtenburg, and race on foot for their claims, the government made each contestant obtain a license in the city and then rush to the field. The distance obviously necessitated automobiles...
...across the tracks near a curve and then went into the bushes to wait. A few minutes before the express arrived, a freight train came puffing up to the obstruction and its engineer got out of his cab and pushed the tie down into the bushes. Matt Fisher was about to put it back where he wanted it when some trainmen who had heard his dog barking, found him sitting in the shrubbery. They asked him what he was doing and Matt Fisher, sucking on a cigaret, told them...
...bizarre account of how he and Captain Zappi left the Swedish scientist Dr. Finn Malmgren to die upon the Arctic ice (TIME, Aug. 6). Said Mariano: "When the unavoidable separation from Malmgren came and we dug him a trench we told him we would halt 100 yards away and wait there twenty-four hours in case he changed his mind and considered himself able to continue. We did this, and when we saw him, on one occasion, lift his head we shouted, 'Come on, Malmgren.' He shook his head, saying, 'Go on.' We continued then without...
Through the salons of these internationally-known couturiers, last week, wandered the elite of Paris and of Paris visitors. But U. S. women of fashion need not despair because they were not in Paris last week. Let them but wait until fall and they will find the most classic models of Worth, the most daring of Vionnet's designs, reproduced in many a U. S. department store. Instead of paying $500 for a sports costume by Chanel, they will pay $200 or $300 for a replica of the same costume in a Manhattan shop. For Paris dressmakers have found...