Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orchid and many thanks for your article on Florida (TIME, Jan. 10). I have just finished reading it, while I . . . wait here in the U.S.O. at Washington's Union Station for a train to get me back to my ship-I hope before she sails without...
...Ottawa, 2) charged falsely that Jimmy was trying to get his hands on a $7,000,000 fund he had disinterestedly urged her to found for the ". . . relief of the underprivileged," and 3) reached "the acme of refined cruelty . . . when Mr. Cromwell's valet . . . was compelled to wait several hours . . . because Mr. Cromwell's bedroom was occupied by his successor in his wife's affections." (Members of Parliament roasted playboy Member Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid for playing with Doris in Hawaii during London's blitz.) Cromwell denied the desertion and cruelty charges on which Doris...
Thriving, too, is that great standby, the pantomime-ostensibly for youngsters but, like the American circus, something that most parents can't wait to take the children to. Embroidering a fairy tale or nursery rhyme with slapstick and music, the pantomime is rich in traditions. The hero is always played by a girl, the ugly old dame by a man; and there is usually a stuffed cat or dog. Biggest pantomime hit is Humpty Dumpty, breaking all records at the Coliseum to the tune of ?9,000 a week. Its animal is a stuffed terrier, that, like the rubber...
...over any extra eyes to other hospitals that need them. A very few eyes will go a long way-one sound eye can provide grafts for as many as three blind eyes. Once the eye bank gets established, no blind person whose cornea can be repaired should have to wait very long...
...Tracy insisted that the company wait for Johnson to get well, rather than reshoot with another actor...