Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like the Eleusinian mysteries over the social ideal so cannily supported by a foreign financial power. For with no uncertain show of favoritism, select groups of men have already been let in on the secret while the rest loiter about the doors of the exclusive House Plan Club and wait with a degree of hopefulness such as attended the coming of the Ford...
...didn't see any one around, but all of a sudden a motorcycle cop drove up behind me and says, 'What've you got there?' I saw there wasn't any use arguing so I told him. I said 'O. K. I'm licked'. But he says, 'Wait a minute there, don't go so fast;; let's see what we can do about this. Go ahead back and get in your...
Jean Frenchman and his sturdy wife are supposed to shrug at politics, but one twilight last week they swallowed their soupe a l'oignon early, then turned out at least 10,000 strong to wait in chattering throngs around the Chamber of Deputies...
...drizzling rain made no difference. The great night had come. In the Chamber there would be delirious hours of such oratory as Frenchmen love to wallow in. Sonorous snatches and smart mots would drift out to the magpie crowd. They parbleu, would not wait to read in the papers that at the climax of this Parliamentary orgy the Chamber had sustained or overthrown the Cabinet boldly formed last fortnight in defiance of party leaders by "The Most American of Frenchmen," driving, militant, iconoclastic Andre Tardieu (TIME...
...read and reflect"; that the monthly Century would become a quarterly (TIME, Aug. 5). From 1906 to 1928 Century's circulation had dropped from 150,000 to 22,000. Last week, undismayed by the swan song of the quarterly Edinburgh Review (that "modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year" [TIME, Oct. 28]) and in the Review's old colors of blue and buff, that new Century rose from the ashes. Said Editor Howland: "Within these blue and buff covers there are eighty thousand words. They were chosen by eighteen skilled workmen, who joined...