Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worked his way through art school as a waiter and porter, and as Julia Kelly, who came untutored to the exhibition ten years ago and has recently got into the Luxembourg-leavened the works of their fantastic fellow members. New Yorkers came and stared-and went away to wait for the circus...
...great forerunner of the modern movement in your country was of course, Wait Whitman, I cannot say that I agree with Mr. Untermeyer in calling him the motivating force in modern American Poetry which I am now writing, I have had occasion to study Whitman rather extensively, and I greatly admire his power and spirit. There was a freedom and freshness about his attitude and work which has had a tremendous influence in the liberal and radical movements of this century...
...fourth will not seriously inconvenience foreigners. 2) That the night rates have long ago become a mockery, the drivers simply holding out for what they can get. Early in the evening they often inform prospective fares that they are on the way to their own dinners-and wait to be bribed. After midnight they usually demand a sum based on the appearance of those who hail them. A quietly dressed Parisian and his wife may get home for almost the day tariff. A silken-caped, silk-hatted Argentine millionaire with his hatless ermine-caped mistress may be held up until...
...stage just five minutes after the curtain went up on the second act. It was a nervous, awkward little run, as if she would start at once with the business of the evening. But for the audience the business of the evening had begun. They would not wait to hear her sing. They clapped and clapped until Marion Talley had to give up being Gilda and bow many times, shy, awkward little bows as if she realized the time was not yet ripe for bowing. A few remembered they had come to hear her sing, hissed for quiet. "Mia Padre...
...wisecracking, smut-slinging school. All his laughs depend on sound principles of burlesque and a certain ridiculous irresponsibility that makes him seem at all times spontaneous. Possibly you may not sympathize as we do with Mitzi, but if you don't like Mr. Lupino we shall wait for you some night out by the Rotunda...