Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latin American has no illusions in such matters. He may be flattered by Mr. Hoover's visit. He will welcome the opportunity of obtaining a personal impression of so important a national and international figure. But he will wait calmly for the results as reflected in American policy. And the visit should be productive of results in closer and more cordial inter-American relationships...
...suspect that Philip Goodman who ... is ... expert at the consumption of food . . . must have interfered with the direction of Rainbow ... I shall not be astonished if I learn that the long wait after the second scene was due to his efforts to be helpful ... I suggest that Mr. Stallings and Mr. Hammerstein persuade Mr. Goodman to go to Italy for a month and fill himself with food so that he may fall into a torpor. . . . They must get Mr. Goodman eating or their play will collapse'. ... A sharp pruning knife. however, especially if Mr. Goodman can be sent...
Those contemplating an early return to the house parties so rudely interrupted by a compulsory first class after a holiday would do well to wait until 11 o'clock this morning. At 10 o'clock in the Music Building, Miss Rozi Varady, distinguished Hungarian cellist will appear in a program composed of selections from the works of Haydn and a group of old dances...
...Hoover went out and caught the cat, took it indoors. After breakfast, she accompanied her husband to a polling place, with their sons and daughter-in-law. They returned to a house full of people, sandwiches, chrysanthemums, telegraph tickers and commotion, to wait and hear how many millions of citizens were voting the way the Hoovers had voted. If Mrs. Hoover thought about the black cat during the day, there was another "omen," too. It was not only Mrs. Smith's birthday, but Herbert Hoover...
...courses that fill this need are necessary tedious. The classics are tasted but any attention to literary values must wait on the stumbling paraphrases of the classroom. Better known than these slightly musty process are the writers increasingly read in this country men like Proust and Hampton and Thomas Mann. With the expenditure of some labor elementary knowledge does not preclude the enjoyment of these writers. And well disciplined intelligent individual study in line with all modern tendencies promises more of permanence and adhered to yields as much at the moment as grammatical boredom...