Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tardieu L'Americain was appealing to French public opinion over the heads of politicians?a trick he may possibly have learned in the U. S. On the face of things his "republicans of good will" commanded no certain majority, last week, but Le Dauphin boldly announced that he would wait five days before facing the Chamber, and in that interval it was entirely possible that the deputies could be cajoled and dazzled into enthroning "the crown prince...
...decided last spring," he continued, "why wait until October 16 to make it public? More than $5000 has been spent since July; the giving public has thus been misled for several months, and gifts received since July can properly be asked to be returned...
...possession at the time of their arrest. Probably the only seats unoccupied during the Army and Dartmouth games were those held by the Brighton force as evidence of the unpermitted occupation of city streets. The plain clothes men cannot convict on a mere request to buy tickets, but must wait until they see the tickets change hands to place the speculator under arrest. For this reason, many of the professional men go free, but as they turn the ticket number over to the Athletic Association in return for money, the student selling them it almost always blacklisted...
...would rather wait a year, and if FORTUNE is then what it promised to be, I shall gladly subscribe...
Like Blackwood's Magazine and the Quarterly Review, its ancient rivals, the Edinburgh Review matured, grew old, sedate. Last week its editors sadly confessed: "Modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year for observations on life, letters, history and society." They announced the Review's demise...