Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three halls, jammed as they had never been jammed before, received the Happy Warrior that night. First, he went to Mechanics and Symphony Halls, where 17.000 people risked limb, if not life, for two smiles and two dozen words by the Nominee, and for a long wait until his speech came in over the radio from the Boston Arena. It was after 9 o'clock when he reached the Arena, stuffy and emotionally boiling with 19,000 persons, where no more than 15,000 persons had ever been able to get in together before. Mrs. Francis B. Sayre (whom President...
...mighty Anaconda itself which carried the Carson case, last August, to the U. S. Supreme Court. Chief Counsel Charles Evans Hughes argued earnestly that side-charging furnaces had been used before the Desert Rat won his patents. Dubious, the Magna Copper Co. of Ari zona did not wait for the decision, settled last fortnight with Carson's backers for $75,000 and an arrangement for future use of the patents. And last week, the Supreme Court briefly denied Anaconda's petition. Holding the battle at length won. the Carson Investment Co. announced that only the labor of accounting...
...make his fine speech there. Glowering more and more darkly, Mr. Taylor did not go to that evening's banquet for the Nominee in Johnson City. Instead, he went to Washington. He was mad. They would see. That Carroll Reece! That Claudius Huston! That *** never mind! Just wait. J. Will Taylor controls more Republican votes than practically any man in Tennessee. Hmph...
...proctor and two bulldogs ran to the steps of the nearest college where he was safe. Now it is also a rule that every student must be in his own college by 12 o'clock. Since it was 11 o'clock at the time, the proctor sat down to wait, while the student sat down on the steps, confronting...
...last library chou-chou, through whose curved muzzle we had been receiving and sending messages to the central reading room thirty miles back of the lines, has been cut off. When I sent my last plea for help, I had to wait thirty minutes for an answer. Various bulletins which I recognized as spurious, came through, carrying such messages in a heavy German hand as? 'Out for two weeks', 'reserved for the Rainbow Division', or 'in bindery'. At last came back my own cylinder. With Edson, our flagbearer, who had been wounded in the head, drooling Beowulf...