Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King and Queen often leave a performance before it is over in order to avoid being caught in an exit crowd or to avoid causing inconvenience to the audience by requiring them to wait until they have departed...
...Johnston defeated Richards and Williams; then Williams and Richards beat Johnston and Tilden. A selection committee admitted that it could find nothing to choose between the two teams. They began a deciding match. Williams drove, volleyed; Richards served, smashed; they won the first set without loss of a game. "Wait till Tilden gets after them," grinned the crowd. But the Champion continued his erratic tennis. It was Johnston who got after them. His forehand drives were so fast they could hardly be seen; his service was as faultless as that which is advertised for summer hotels. With little help from...
...tenderness, sneered at her complaints, assumed high dudgeon when her desperation became vindictive. His sooty little conscience glowing at her quick repentance, out he marched, free to take a new lodging, walk the London streets after work and supper, fondle his mustache, boldly scrutinize passing women and wait, thinking himself a very audacious chap of the world indeed, for further chances to cheat life of amorous adventures where the women gave all and he, Amédée Ripois, gave nothing...
...contrive to hoist this hackneyed happening up by its boot straps and make it casually entertaining. It is a yarn of Venice and the Sahara in which the lady marries the wrong man in a fit of pique. She has to renounce her lover to have his life and wait a few months for the husband to be murdered...
...finding will obviously have to be carried to a higher court and mankind must wait with what composure it can for the appellate decision, remembering that if Germany is judged half as innocent as Mr. Ewart finds her, the Versailles Treaty will become nulla virtute redemptum...