Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really serious and well-intentioned vagabond should return within the pale after a well-rounded and on the whole rather delightful vacation, with so much enthusiasm for the Arts, Nature and other matters of great import to University Hall that he can hardly wait to attend his first class. There is a considerable degree of assurance that he will do so, but unfortunately not with quite the elan which might he desired All this because two occurrences, one quite delicious and the other unfortunate to an untold degree marred he bright days just gone...
...mental vagrancy is fairly definite proof that no such glorious prank was played on the steamship company; at least by this party, but the excitement attendant upon such an event has completely upset our mental processes and we can think of nothing better to do than reminisce and wait for that nine weeks distant moment when we too shall join that vast company which goes down to the sea and then into the ships...
...Emperor, entered the booth of a crystal-gazing fortune teller, laid down a crown. . . . "Your father," said the seer, "was a sea captain but he has retired." Prince George nodded encouragement. His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth. "Your eldest brother . . . wait, young man . . . you must warn him! I see him in the crystal. . . . It is tomorrow. He rides in a race and I see him fall. . . ." Laughing, Prince George strode from the booth. Later he warned Edward of Wales that if he rode next day he would fall off his horse...
...this question." "We believe," he added, "that a great menace to public welfare is involved. The tests so far made for ventilation have been inadequate. . . . The present exhaust openings . . . are totally inadequate . . . we suggest . . . further tests." Autoists crowding impatiently at the crawling ferries must settle down to a new wait; the Manhattan and New Jersey tunnel opening is once more delayed...
...mate for Christopher Columbus, headlines snarled: "VILE CRIME AGAINST FASCISM," "ODIOUS ACT OF ANTI-FASCISTS." A villain was even named by name, one Vacirca, an exile. Proudly piped Il Piccolo: "STRONG WILL OF MUSSOLINI WILL CONTINUE FLIGHT." Commander de Pinedo proceeded to Los Angeles (and doubtless to Hollywood), to wait...