Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to a list, compiled by the New York World, of current laws proposed in state legislatures, the republic is being safeguarded from every possible angle; adopting the methods of modern medicine, the eager solons are not content to wait for trouble to appear but plan to nip it in the budnay, in the very seed, before it is visible to the untrained eye. Thus Senator Beaver of Oklahoma would make it illegal in that state to "circulate" biscuits--apparently a quaint native custom--of less than three inches in diameter and one inch in thickness. "The society biscuit...
...determined to board it for the homeward trip. He got a job helping to unload, and found that his chances of shipping aboard the vessel were very slender, as it already had one man, a stowaway, in irons to prevent his slipping ashore. There was nothing to do but wait for the next ship, while Plumer, wherever he might have been, made his way toward the goal...
...Chipps, the jurors heard Defense Lawyer Dayton Moses declaim: "Thank God, in Texas you don't have to wait until you are shot down to protect your own life. Dr. Norris is a man of courage. He had the right to kill Chipps the minute he came into his office door, but he did not. He waited until Chipps came back, rushed at him to carry out the promise he [Chipps] had made to Mayor H. C. Meacham [of Fort Worth, who was not permitted to testify in this trial] to stop Norris or kill him. Poor Chipps...
...Mitchell the lie, for President Mitchell was nicely accurate. His is the largest banking institution in the U. S.-assets $1,394,389,890. But it is not the largest financial institution, President Fiske knew. But he would not spoil President Mitchell's day of publicity. He would wait until the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and then he would tell the facts...
...scraps are sent floating out to sea. Usually it is hours before a long shape, bronze in the bright blue water, moves slowly in over the bar. Other slow shapes follow, circling the buoy cautiously. Chunks of "proud" beef, on six-inch hooks, chain leaders and lines like halyards, wait for them on the bottom-usually wait for hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." A more appropriate exhibit would have been the jaws of a large barracuda (sphyraena...