Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is not an unsurpassed piece of blatantly asinine braying combined with free publicity, I should like to see its better. Being a new subscriber I wait in hopes for some future masterpieces...
...fourth time in five years, the Senate passed Senator Norris's common-sensical resolution to amend the Constitution so that Congress, including newly-elected members, would meet on a set date (Jan. 2) each year and remain seated until its business is finished, instead of making new Congressmen wait 13 months to be seated and adjourning on March 4 every other year, as now; also, so that the President would take office Jan. 15 instead of March 4. Last week the House hemmed and hawed as usual over this attack on "lame duck" sessions and modified Senator Norris...
...last month by the House Naval Affairs Committee and replaced by a 16-ship program to cost only some $264,000,000, reserving to the President the power to suspend construction in case of another international disarmament conference. The House received this bill last fortnight but it had to wait its turn to be debated...
Photographers begged for one more picture, on the hotel steps with the manager. Mayor Walker, letting Secretary Mellon wait, obliged. Then he motored to the Treasury Department. The chauffeur wanted to stop at the Secretary's private entrance but Mayor Walker wisecracked: "Better go in the regular way, although I've been thrown out of better places than that...
...telephone rang and said, "Secretary Mellon will wait 15 minutes longer for you." Mayor Walker eased into his modish overcoat and observed: "I am happy wherever I am. That's why I hate to leave...