Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notion that the French Parliament is well disposed. But Mr. Mellon got back no encouragement from M. Poincaré. There was, he learned, no chance of ratification by the present French Parliament. Mr. Mellon continued to rest. For his part, M. Poincaré hoped that the U. S. would wait patiently, in view of the fact that France has not waited for ratification to begin paying her debt on the scale fixed by the Mellon-Berenger agreement. M. Poincaré's worry was this: that the U. S. would insist upon collecting the $400,000,000 War stocks debt...
...North, Jack Ellyat pitied the fugitive slave, "a black man with the eyes of a tortured horse," but he thought of new states crowding to be admitted to the Union: The buckskin-States, the buffalo-horned, the wild Mustangs with coats the color of crude gold. . . . And must they wait like spayed mares in the rain, While Carolina and Connecticut Fight an old quarrel out before a ghost? . . . And from the mountains, came reluctant stragglers wondering just who their enemies were: "Dunno's I rightly know just who they air," He admitted finally, "But 'tain...
...Secretary Kellogg is perfectly right, and we ought to be astonished that we had to wait ten years for an expression of such simple, common sense truth in an official document. But Secretary Kellogg's proposal is only a generic beginning...
Germans. Even higher-95%-was an estimate placed upon the pro-Hoover vote forthcoming from German-Americans. The estimaters were a delegation, mostly Chicagoans, who had been chosen by a recent German-American conference in Manhattan to wait upon Spokesman Hubert Work. They said they represented the German-Americans of New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin...
...Governor of New York, alert at Albany, spent three successive evenings beside his radio. It was a long time to wait for one announcement but he bore up cheerfully. The long sittings made historic a small, thickly upholstered sofa and a ponderous, brindled Great Dane named Jefferson, whom the Governor addressed now and then to ease his mind. Mrs. Emily Smith Warner (eldest daughter) and her husband were there, too. Also Walter Smith (youngest son), Mrs. Belle Moskowitz (chief publicist) and her husband; also secretaries, friends, newsgatherers. The Governor chewed long cigars, drank water frequently. His face was redder than...