Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jack Hilliard (British) was my partner. Quite attractive, but he wore ugly shoes. The reporters came up. I wouldn't let them photograph me because I had on my oldest sweater and I just told them the truth about it. "Gentlemen," I said, "don't take my photograph today. Wait until Wednesday. I am getting some new French dresses made and they will be delivered Wednesday. I want my California friends to see how good I look in French models...
...much as money . . . for society, the came society that decreed the rise and success of Europe's famous watering place-Biarritz-has decided to have its new playground in Florida . . . a cosmopolitan paradise . . . impeccable social and financial powers. . . . Already steamships are plying. . . . Society does not care to wait...
...Rogers relative to the withdrawal of the Harvard Glee Club from the Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest I add my sincere approval. Properly done and at the proper time, without pretext, it is wholly within the right of each of the component clubs to withdraw from the organization. But to wait till the contest is at hand before signifying such intention can be productive only of disarrangement and of justly unfavorable criticism. The reason given, that the composition selected for uniform competition is "of musical inferiority and real musical worth", strikes my ears strangely. A close acquaintance of many years with...
Kemal Pasha said: "When the Republic of Turkey was first proclaimed, it was intended to codify the Turkish law as it then stood.... Experts, however, estimated that 50 jurists working ten hours a day for a century could not complete the task.... We 'Young Turks' could not wait so long...
...down. A prosecuting attorney who is out to wrest acclaim from society in compensation for a grotesque nose, causes "justice" to be done by "planting" some of the dead girl's hairs in a crevice of the camera. Clyde Griffiths goes to the death house, undergoes the torturing wait, passes through the little green door...