Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair, in jail for contempt of Senate (refusing to answer questions) and of court (jury shadowing), or to Henry Mason Day, Mr. Sinclair's henchman. Day has a passport to go to Europe next month when he will be released in the regular course of events. Sinclair must wait till November, in spite of his plea that his weight has fallen from 200 Ibs. to 185 Ibs., that stockholders are suffering from his absence...
...With such folk as the Socialists we can only talk with whips in our hands!" shouted General Hess, a onetime Imperial Austrian Corps Commander, haranguing 1,500 Heimwehr at Waidhofen. "Steady, men! Keep your rifles at the ready!" warned the Socialist organ Arbeiter-Zeitung. "Wait until the Heimwehr attack. Then let them taste steel...
Harris, Forbes & Co. began in 1882 as N. W. Harris & Co. At that time Founder Norman Wait Harris had an office on Chicago's Clark St., three employes and $30,000. But he also had two ideas. First idea was to send salesmen out to sell bonds. In 1882 such procedure was regarded as undignified; Mr. Harris and his men were termed doorbell ringers. But Mr. Harris knew that he, small, new, obscure, would never prosper by waiting for investors to call upon him, so he rang the doorbells, sold the bonds, became ancestor of all bond salesmen since...
...West Point and Dartmouth games, which are found in the back of the H. A. A. book, must be handed in before 6 o'clock October 2 in order to secure the reduction in prices available to all members of the H. A. A. Students are advised not to wait until the last minute rush to secure their seats...
...first "take off" alone, as he tells it, his heart was up around his Adam's apple where it had no business. The more so when the usual little brown ambulance drew up to wait at one corner of the broad flying field...