Word: waits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Where they have been only too glad to reach public opinion through the newspapers, she has given the press correspondents no idea of her true position. Where they have eagerly put their problems before the readers of the country, she, because her newspapers are different, thought her "case could wait until it was presented by diplomats to diplomats." The extraordinary role that the public has played in the proceedings at Washington is a little beyond the ken of continental France...
...Many men of unusual ability finish their college course in three and a half years, and it is such men as these that we wish to accommodate with this new arrangement, so that they will not have to wait until September to begin their business training. The plan was suggested by a number of such men, who felt that under existing business conditions they had no other opportunity to use this period profitably...
...cast follows: M. Stingem, Proprietor of the Hotel Puree-Tourine, S. W. Hovey ocC. Buttons, the Bell-hop, P. L. Cheney 2S.A. Mr. Cravat, of Cravat and Cravat, 7th Avenue, M. G. Jones '22 Mrs. Cravat, Richard Wait...
...jolly rag, tag, and bobtail of life; they have bowed to rosy--cheeked girls; their presence has brought smiles, sighs, soft words, and arch glances. But now they are almost forgotten. Life sweeps by in Plympton street outside. A false hope brightens the spirits of the hats as they wait in the Crimson building. Who knows but they may be called again? Who knows but they may again sweep down the stream of life? But the days go by and no one comes in. . . . The sunsinks and the chill of night comes into the air. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin
...Wilbur on Monday. There are many exciting moments--scenes which in a different atmosphere would have held the spectators breathless; to be sure, the audience was breathless anyhow, but in this case it was too spent with laughter to move. It could only sit and wait for the comedian, John Murphy, to crack another joke. Nor was it ever disappointed; the joke was always forth-coming and, what is more, it was always good. After two minutes of Mr. Murphy, no one in the house was able to take as anything but a joke the murder of a financier...