Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt has all her son's tact and skill in dealing with the Press. When ship-newshawks rapped on her stateroom door, she called out: "I'll have to ask you to wait for half an hour. My hair is not fixed and I must dress." Thirty minutes later reporters trooping into her cabin were greeted with: "Who are all these charming people...
...Moscow's favorite stories is about a bootblack from the Soviet Republic of Georgia who used to hang around the Kremlin gate refusing to shine shoes. "I only need to wait until my old Georgian neighbor Stalin comes along," the bootblack haughtily explained to Bolsheviks who sought a shine. "He will make me a Commissar or Ambassador at least...
...fresh note rather than a new one is struck in Poet Engle's writings. Enthusiasts may compare him to Whitman, to Sandburg, to Frost, but cooler heads will wait for more achievement before upping him above MacLeish or Jeffers. A note of challenge to defeat, however, augurs well for the future. "Complaint to Sad Poets" sounds the battle cry: Will you never be done with barking at the moon? . . . The terrier bitch that whelped its litter today Under the barn where the dirt is moist and dark Shames and defies you with the quiet logic Of life that works...
Whatever the outcome, "it's been wonderful for me," sighed Mrs. Wood, contemplating the everlasting antics of her twins. "My next oldest child was only 3 when they were born. I couldn't wait in the morning until the nurse would call for them. . . .Johnny! Get off the table! . . . Jimmy! Shame on you! Come to the bathroom...
...floor of the New York Stock Exchange almost every trading day for the past two months. Astonished visitors saw sights and heard sounds that would shake the faith of the blackest capitalist. Specialists dozed through raucous japery and ear-splitting versions of such old Floor favorites as "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" or "The Wearing of the Green." Oldsters yawned over backgammon, clerks wrestled and punched each other...