Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freedom to Dr. Cook, under a 1925 law which allows Federal judges to liberate prisoners. But, U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, a Vermont country product, announced that he wanted to test this law in the courts. Judge Wilson agreed, recalled his probation order. So, Dr. Cook, who waited for no poles, must wait for the U. S. courts. Whatever happens, he will be eligible for parole in 1930 (his prison term ends...
...Christchurch waited the impressive monarch of Chatham Islands, King Tami Solomon (392 pounds). His Majesty had to wait until the Mayor of Christchurch and many another had welcomed the Royal Duke; then King Tami (an impotent old tribal chief) was presented to the second son of the King-Emperor George...
...laughed at great men. Yet there was no greater man in public life anywhere when he died. Napoleon, Metternich, Wellington, Peel-he had sent flowers to a thousand notable graves. Gladstone and Disraeli-because he lived, they had to wait. And Bismarck had just begun. The last light of the 18th Century flashed in Palmerston's eyes-eyes which, shaded by a white silk hat, were too weak to catch any glimpse of the 20th Century...
...Hopkins but general agreement with his fundamental contention that steps should be taken to reform abuses in intercollegiate football. The latter, so far as can now be determined, has been very fully, attained. The next step is a definite invitation from Dartmouth for a conference, which in turn must wait upon the decision of the Dartmouth Athletic Council. Under the circumstances it is inconceivable that its decision will be negative...
...notwithstanding this new triumph of American industry, Reno hotel men cannot sit back too blandly and wait for the dollars to pour in. In Paris a lively bootlegging trade has begun by which a divaree may be secured in three weeks for as little as 1,000 dollars plus passage and wine costs'. Worst of all is the possibility that such men as Senator Borah may effect a renewal of relations with Russia, where divorce is only a matter of minutes, and does not even require proofs of dementia praecox, chronic alcoholism, or sadism. The Soviet might almost stabilize...