Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THOSE who read and liked "South Wind" have had to wait ten years for Norman Douglas' next book "In the Beginning." At last it is here, and although everybody is rushing around to snatch up the first editions, it is, frankly not worth waiting...
...urged his docile horde to do anything. He dared not, because upon the rooftops of Alba Julia were planted machine guns, and quietly massed at strategic points were well-paid troops apparently loyal to the Bratiano regime. In these circumstances, Dr. Maniu told his peasants to wait a bit in Alba Julia and himself sped to Bucharest where he presented their resolution to the Regency.* The regents refused to request Premier Vintila Bratiano's resignation, but agreed to permit the peasants a demonstration. So next day, preceded and followed by a detachment of Rumanian cavalrymen and shaded fitfully...
Shortly after 4, von Huenefeld, monocle anchored in his right eye, sat down to a hard-boiled egg breakfast. Then he lighted a cigar and offered another to the Irishman, who smilingly declined; he could "wait till we get to New York...
...said they; Lady Sophie, flying north over the Sudan, had also been forced to take an escort from the other side-a young lieutenant, snatched from the bride with whom he was honeymooning in African solitude. Very well, said Lady Mary, but time was never so precious; must she wait until the Lieutenant arrived with Lady Sophie? She must. The lieutenant came, the two ladies exchanged brief words of recognition, and back went the lieutenant over the Sudan, this time flying south with Lady Mary...
Lady Sophie flew solo to Cairo. The race was hers. She had done the hard bit -vast veldt and jungle now lay in wait only for her rival. But, name of a dog, at the Cairo airdrome, where she stopped for supplies, officers padlocked her plane. It was not safe, they said, for a lady to cross the Mediterranean alone...