Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head down into a tank of water, barred inside. An assistant, sometimes in impressive rubber clothing, stands by with an ax while a canopy is lowered over the tank, ready to smash the glass and release the water if Mr. Houdini's life is endangered. After an endless wait for the audience, out comes Mr. Houdini, dripping but quite free. Like about 50% of Mr. Houdini's vaudeville program, the solution of the "Chinese water-cell" escape is clear to any observer of normal alertness. The stocks used are made of wooden halves fitting into an iron frame...
...replied Napoleon. 'The sun of Austerlitz is my sun--let us wait until they engage our centre...
...been a long, smoldering wait for Governor Roland H. Hartley, but when he struck, he struck suddenly. Dr. Henry Suzzallo, the University President, had crossed his trail years ago, during the War, when he, Hartley, then a private citizen deep in timber operations, was having trouble with labor. The academician, as a member of the Labor Industries Board, had the audacity to suggest that timber operators put their crews on an eight-hour schedule, as in many another industry. In 1924, after Mr. Hartley's election and during his campaign for a superboard to manage all state education (instead...
...have captured in 35 years. Two of his kin died some years ago in England. Two stalk dejectedly about the zoo at Cairo. This fifth one, four feet high, maltese grey, was to tour U.S. zoos, guided by Collector George H. Bistany, who had braved malaria and homesickness to wait, near a broad spreading cactus bush in a Nile valley swamp, until the bird's mother hatched him and led him toddling forth with brothers and sisters...
...shaft and the flash wait, but are not yet found...