Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro men. Many a Southern gentleman had, and has, children by his cook. Author White points out that Southern white women themselves frown on lynching as a means of protecting their virtue, which Negroes protected during the Civil War, when white husbands were away. Lynchers, usually sexual perverts, seldom wait for confirmation of alleged attacks. A rumor, a whisper, a bloodthirsty suggestion by one of a crowd of street loungers, is enough...
...Reykjavik, Iceland's mountain-hugged harbor, the westbound Swedish "commercial" flyers (TIME, June 17) last week decided to wait until the end of this month before continuing their Stockholm-New York flight. Bad weather over Greenland and need for motor parts are delaying them...
Three Hundred Copies Wait Buyers...
HERE are myths and legends of Capri made while you wait, and then unmade again with such rapidity that a slight but very pleasing sensation of madness overtakes you. You sigh with pleasure something goes lightly to your head, then: "Ah," you knowingly remark, "it is that Capri...
...Graf Zeppelin's crossing France, wirelessed Commander Eckener to try to reach Cuers-Pierrefeu. He succeeded. A company of Senegalese troops pulled the ship to earth and walked her into the hangar. Passengers, weary, pretended unconcern over their dangers. Most of them declared that they would wait until the ship's motors were replaced and she would start again for the U. S. That, it was apparent, would not be for several weeks...