Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble appears to have started when Bill Jhonson, a "scowling man who had a curled mustache," took a card from his coat. Tom gritted his teeth and "could hardly wait till night to settle with him.'' He riddled Bill Jhonson and all his bandit friends, then studied a map of a gold mine and said, "Guess I better go to sleep." In the morning he tried to clean up Silver City and there was a terrific battle. ''Smoke filled the streets, the shouts of men were drowned in the gun fire, in every store...
This year, as usual, the tarnished Nickel Plate cannot make the grade. In first seven months it lost $2,003,779, contrasted with its $1,510,936 seven-month profit last year. Hence, last summer it asked the noteholders to wait until 1941, added that it would need almost a 100% affirmative reply for this third extension...
...ought to be going strong-as Melville, after writing Moby Dick, turned out the weird, confused, unreadable Pierre. Sometimes writers escape quickly; sometimes, like Melville, they are gone for good. But when a writer begins to follow his genius up a blind alley, all that admirers can do is wait and hope they will return together...
...Opera Stars Elisabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza exploded into super-canary song. Ex-Opera Star Beniamino Gigli, who left the Metropolitan in a huff six years ago when it threatened to cut his pay, and who was returning to the U. S. to sing on the radio, could not wait either. While stewards gasped, he gave everything he had to "Where Do You Worka John? On the Delaware Lacka...
...funnymen think differently. "Hell," said President William Calfee '39, "Lampy's been getting those for years. Now just wait...