Word: waitin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huffed a police sergeant at the palace gates, "there's nothing to see 'ere. Nobody need wait who don't know what 'e's waitin' for. Step along now. Step along." All around him the milling crowd grinned self-consciously and held its ground. For a week or more, curious and sentimental Londoners had gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace to gaze curiously at a third-floor window, wait aimlessly for a while, drift away and return again to renew the vigil...
...Dance Director Nick Castle, who runs a school for professional children on the side, heard her improvising on Waitin' for the Train to Come In. He gave her a part in a Christmas revue. Toni stole the show. Later, she appeared in stage shows with Cab Galloway and a broadcast with Eddie Cantor...
...Coast air two years ago. Its theme song, Time on My Hands, is gone (Helbros Watch Co. snapped it up), but the rest of the show is still there. There is a rendition of We've Got the Lord on Our Side ("The Devil's out there waitin'; it's either us or Satan. . . .") or a similar melody by the 26-inmate glee club. There are selections by a 22-piece orchestra, which sometimes tackles a Rachmaninoff prelude "in the style of the San Quentin Orchestra." There are vocals by prison songbirds; a short speech...
...civilian war effort (Driver Durante, trying his best to keep proper control of the brake and '"exhilarator,'" is nudged so far over by "Share-the-ride-Schwartz" and other multiplying members of the pool that finally '"I'm standin' on da corner waitin' for a streetcar...
Crime. In The Bronx, N.Y., a gunman burglarized a dentist's office, reassured the dentist: "Shut your mouth. . . . This won't hurt a bit." In Philadelphia, police accosted a suspicious-looking stranger, asked him what he was doing. "Waitin' for my partner," he said. They asked: "Where's he?" The stranger replied: "Robbin' a house down the street." In Dallas police frisked a burglary suspect. He was wearing: a pair of overalls, two pairs of trousers, two swim suits, two suits of long underwear, seven pairs of shorts, eight pair of women's lace...