Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door of her dingy little dressing room to anyone who could crowd inside. Her laughter boomed so lustily that stage managers feared it could be heard in the auditorium. In the old horse-&-buggy era, Wagnerian divas like Johanna Gadski and Lillian Nordica had expected even the stagehands to wait on them. Traubel insists on putting on her own makeup, wig and costumes, because "being dependent is a luxury you shouldn't allow yourself...
...this basis, Reade has already got New Yorkers, including John Hay Whitney, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Cole Porter, to subscribe from $62.40 to $93.60 each for year-round reservations. For their money, they will be able to see movies (but not first-run ones) without having to wait in line.* The fancy prices also cover the cost of 1) roomy love seats, 2) hearing aids, 3) telephone service direct to seats, 4) art exhibits, 5) free coffee and French cookies in a mirror-lined lounge equipped with backgammon tables and a television set, 6) free cosmetics in the champagne-colored ladies...
...what went wrong. Burt Lancaster, as the Swede, underplays his part right down to the danger point, but he never slips, never makes a mistake. In his hands the Swede becomes the moody, unpredictable, slow-thinking guy who finally can lie on his bed in his room and wait for the killers...
...except for a year of teaching at Hotchkiss) was secretary of Brown University. In the Navy, assigned to help run an officers' training school at Ohio State, he worked toward a master's degree in philosophy in his spare time. Now the degree will have to wait. At Washington and Jefferson, which was founded by clergymen for clergymen's sons, his first goal will be to get the college something it has never had: a chapel...
...White House physician," Admiral Mclntire explains, "may not wait until the President picks up a germ, runs a temperature. . . . The job is to keep him well . . . and that entails daily observation. . . . [The] medicine man of the Great White Father must have the run of the place . . . in parlor, bedroom, and bath...