Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brokerage offices were thrown into excited confusion. So besieged by questioners were the ticker services that their telephone operators could only answer : "Hold on a minute, please." Radio stations had to postpone quotation broadcasts. From coast to coast evening papers, whose Wall Street editions must wait for closing prices and bid & ask quotations, were held up while financial editors futilely tore their hair. Net result of the Stock Exchange's generous attention to Al Smith's warm-hearted plea was a renewed blast of criticism from the outraged Press, which was additionally irked because the Exchange had refused...
...wait till you've been here a year...
...tall professorial man with a long stiff neck and high stiff collar frantically waved his hat. He was their host, Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine Foreign Minister, who 24 hours before had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1936 and who was so delighted that he could hardly wait to come aboard to receive their congratulations...
...Department radiophoned orders to Charge d'Affaires Eric Wendelin to close up the U. S. Embassy, move it to Valencia. A baby born on the I. T. & T. premises was immediately christened "Felix" by a telephone operator of that name who remarked, "there's no time to wait for a priest...
...Jews are like maggots in a decaying body. The black-haired Jew with satanic joy in his face is ever lying in wait for some innocent Aryan girl. . . . No folk can remove this [Jewish] fist from its gullet except by the sword. Only the gathered, concentrated strength of a powerfully rising national passion is able to oppose the international enslavement of peoples. Such a procedure is, however, and remains, a bloody...