Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband, famed Charles Kean, played Iago. In Europe's capital Actor Aldridge also played other Shalespearean roles (e.g., Lear, Shylock, Macbeth.) He married a Swedish baroness (by whom he had three children), died as he was about to return to America to set the record that had to wait 76 years for Paul Robeson...
...Austin High School kids were embryonic musicians who just couldn't wait for the shell to hatch. They incubated under the New Orleans jazzmen who had come up the river when their home grounds were ruled off limits by the clean-up element among Crescent City reformists...
Most U.S. businessmen still don't know for sure whether 1943 has been a good year for them. So far it has been-but they know they must wait for the year end to see where they really stand. Well knowing that quarterly comparisons in wartime are almost meaningless, they nevertheless watched quarterly earnings reports last week, looking for clues. The National City Bank's earnings report for 275 big corporations, released last week, showed income after taxes for the first nine months of 1943 up 13% over last year (for the third quarter alone the increase...
...they seemed last week. Their grounds for suspicion: 1) distillers, already high up in the 1943 excess-profits-tax brackets, have almost no incentive for releasing stocks before the new tax year begins; 2) retailers, whose markup goes on after Federal and state liquor taxes, have every incentive to wait for Congress to decide on a higher liquor excise; 3) if some extra blending spirits could be found-perhaps in Cuba-existing stocks could be stretched, sold under new labels for about as much as straight whiskey brings...
...customs authorities seized his first shipment of clocks because they were invoiced at such a low price that it looked like fraud. Under British law, Mr. Peck received the amount of his invoice plus 10%, and the British Government sold his clocks while he settled comfortably in London to wait for another shipment. The British bit a second time, but by the time they gave up and let in his third shipment in orthodox fashion, the Jerome trade-mark was firmly established...