Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm wife named Mrs. George Baker who was there, "very distressed." Mrs. Baker's husband got out his automobile, pushed the Denhardt car into his driveway. A passing motorist had offered to bring a new battery from town. The General and his companion settled down to wait...
...insurance law. Since last January the law has exacted a 1% payroll tax (which will increase to 2% in 1937, 3% in 1938) from all employers of four or more persons. From the fund thus created, workers who lose their jobs after next year will, following a three-week wait, get $5 to $15 per week for not more than 16 weeks...
...week in his favorite Palace of Schönbrunn. For the first time since the World War the historic gold-banded dinner service of the House of Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist who would like to restore the Habsburgs with young Archduke Otto enthroned at Vienna as Emperor...
Blond, graceful Leopold Stokowski mounted the stand, back as guest conductor with the Orchestra he left last spring to go to Hollywood (TIME, Oct. 19). Conductor Stokowski took pains to make his first concert of the New York season glitter, made the new symphony wait till last. Devoted to Oriental instruments, he swelled the percussion section with a group of weird brass Oriental gongs, had them bong dolefully through his own transcription of music from Boris Godunov...
...held by the Loyalists Great Britain and France, along with the other "neutral" nations, would give that city no aid, he expected a different situation to prevail in the event the capital fell into rebel hands. President Azana lacked imagination. Now these self-styled "neutrals" will not have to wait until the defenders of Madrid are routed. Recognition by Germany and Italy is obviously for the purpose of sending the rebels openly and in even larger quantities the aid they have been supplying all along. Even if Great Britain and France show more decency than one would expect of them...