Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Lucetti, jailed, said to the police: "Don't ask me so many questions at once. I am tired. Wait a bit. Give me a glass of water and a cigaret and I will answer all your questions." One hundred percent white Nordics who had supposed that Latins are perpetually emotional were puzzled...
...graduate into being an "Ancient," a Yogi-like creature with no low passions or appetites, not even the vulgar craving for sleep. To Irénée du Pont, vice chairman of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 30,000 years seems a long time to wait for creative evolution to reach this point, and in the course of his remarks on the dyestuff industry he strayed into the future to propose that chemists could and should discover catalytic chemicals that would counteract the muscle poisons which we now have to sleep off. Instead of going...
...Rich. Desire in the shipping room goads a clerk to seek dubious paths to sudden wealth. He forces his way into Long Island society, only to learn that the straight and narrow path is, after all, the best. The little wife will have to wait for her Rolls Royce. The show is a sort of vaudevillian crazy quilt made out of gaudy wisecracks and patches from several other farces in which New York vernacular has been employed for dramatic effect. Almost all the comedies of this season carry some echo of George Kelly's The Showoff. This one even...
Throughout Mexico the deadlock between Church and State continued total. Bishop Pascual Diaz of Tabasco, active generalissimo for the Mexican Episcopate, said: "We can see no hope of betterment of the situation. . . . Perhaps months and years may pass, but we are disposed to wait patiently and to work through whatever legitimate means we can employ...
...from Deauville one Joseph Morrison, brother of Morris Morrison, Shakespearian actor, his passage paid by Al Jolson, comedian. On the boat Mr. Morrison, penniless, had frolicked. Now he called into his stateroom the ship's men who had served him, told them that he had no money. "But wait," he cried, opening his trunk. . . . His steward received a tuxedo, his "boots" every cravat except one. He gave every shirt except the one on his back to the bottle-boy, and the waiter was rewarded with a pair of cufflinks...