Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winner of the Lee Wade Prize last spring was Donald Wait Keyes '25, who recited "Henry Hudson's Last Voyage" by Henry Van Dyke. The first Boylston Prize was won by Edward John Metzdorf for his delivery of "The Trial of Abner Barrow" by Richard Harding Davis...
...began to cast about for something that they could do. Representative Boylan exclaimed: "Although 27 days have elapsed since I introduced my bill for Government intervention, and the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee has had requests for action on it, nothing has been done. How much longer must we wait before we, or the Administration, will...
Readers of history, biography and novels who wait for Mr. O'Brien's annual pronouncement to see what has been what in the short-story field, will applaud three rising young men this year, Barry Benefield, Nathan Asch, Glenway Wescott. The hardy perennials are welcome: Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Ring Lardner, Wilbur Daniel Steele and Elinor Wylie. Others: Sandra Alexander, Bella Cohen, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Rudolph Fisher, Walter Gilkyson, Manuel Komroff, Robert Robinson, Evelyn Scott, May Stanley, Milton Waldman, Barrett Willoughby...
...love somebody else. Well, so do I, for my heart is in my wife's grave. We both need companionship. Love can wait...
...Wait, Sally," and turning to us Phil continued, "What do you think this girl's done? All morning I've been trying to buy her a present. I tried earrings, brooches, beads, laces, lingerie, perfume and everything else this sacred city holds. Not a thing would she take until she got to a drug store, and then she made me go in and buy her four cakes of Ivory Soap...