Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nebulous work for the Department of Justice since July 1936. Salary: $6,000 a year. The New York Sim's Phelps Adams dug deeper, learned just how much old Tom had to suffer in his supplication for jobs: after six months on the payroll, Tom had to wait more than a month before Mr. Cummings reappointed him, after that had to wait another month before he wangled his name back on the payroll for three more months...
...Wait a minute, boys," said Fats, "let Eugene take the second break!" Eugene Sedric took it, and his tenor sax rippled up and down the scales. "Why dat cat's crazy," yelled Fats. Eugene just closed his eyes with ecstasy...
...Newark, N. J. a file of shackled prisoners on their way from courthouse to jail passed the Second Ward, Fourth District polling place. "Hey, wait!" shouted the head man in the file, "this is where I vote." He was hustled off to prison...
Littauer School must wait...
...just one of the boys tapping routines in vaudeville. Though still unable to startle the dance world, he does unveil a new, more versatile Cagney. As Terry Rooney, Manhattan band leader, he is called to Hollywood for the great opportunity. He leaves his girl, Rita (Evelyn Daw), to wait until he has demonstrated once more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with alarm. He refuses a Robert Taylor widow's peak, practices voice culture with, "The Dyuke blyew on his hunting horn and loffed, ha, ha, ha, when the hounds came...