Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Marie of Rumania, scheduled to arrive here at 6:15 p.m. the same day, should arrive a few hours earlier, she will have to wait until Kansas Citians have entertained President and Mrs. Coolidge and told them farewell before official recognition is taken of her visit...
...Seery, counter-man extraordinary, bus-boy of the first water, is one of those who stand and wait in Arthur's Incorporated. He cannot understand the reason for the agitation and concern over the rapid eating habits of the student body...
...President got more and more provoked. "For two cents I'd declare war" he declared. some of the hot-headed cabinet members started to take up a collection, but with a coolness that has become proverbial in our family, Gamaliel Forecast stepped into the breach. "Why not wait, Mr. President, until the War of 1812 and get even with them for the whole business. Jim Madison will be president then and you won't have to worry about it. Wars are nuisances, anyway...
...again moved effectively, convincingly over modern streets, an anachronism, with a bad leg. So when those who out of generosity and victory donate to the Army of Salvation, it must be hoped that this grand old man and grand old horse will stir an occasional tear. One need not wait until Freddie fails, to weep o'er his prostrate white form in the Sterne mannerly one may do it now. A bas the motor car. Freddie is eternal...
...American girl . . . the English boy plans to go to America . . . forgetting their own very real superiorities. . . . America is curiously indifferent to its fate. None of our newspapers has the courage to discuss . . . the Catholic question, the Negro question, the money-power question or even the liquor question. But wait until population increases to the bare subsistence level. Then America will meet her first test...