Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plans for a balustrade and terrace to serve as a setting for a group of statues on the bank. Mr. Samuel threw fits. His wife, he cried, had left her money for statues, not for balustrades. At this the association threw up its hands and settled down again to wait for Joseph Bunford Samuel to mellow with...
Runner-up was Cravat, a former stablemate of Dauber's in the Whitney string, who had been 20 lengths behind the leaders at the half-mile post, had made an equally astonishing stretch finish. Pace-setting Menow was third, Can't Wait fourth...
...brother of Gallant Fox. 1930 Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner William O'Toole, and hoped he would not run in reverse like his name. Only a sprinkling backed Lawrin, the hillbilly colt, even though he had won the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah Park last winter and had beaten...
...Scientific Monthly last week Dr. Abrams reported that businessmen and lawyers tend to wait longer than the average before taking another wife. Educators, public officials and medical men are not far from the average. Clergymen and engineers are quicker, a good proportion marrying again in less than two years. Dr. Abrams explains this by 1) the social advantage of a wife to Protestant ministers; 2) frequent moving of engineers to new locations. Scientists apparently remarry more quickly than any other group. For this Dr. Abrams had no explanation whatever...
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Harvard's legendary teacher of rhetoric, plans no special observance on his anniversary, just a few friends in for the evening to talk. He wants no fuss over his birthday, preferring to wait until his 80th...