Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salvation of "The Passing Show of 1924", now playing at the Shubert Theatre. He is the only one of all the funny boys in the show who is at once an actor and comedian. He is the real thing, and the audience knows it. They wait patiently through many a skit, song, or splurge, all for the sake of laughing...
...difficult to converse with, being by nature taciturn, a strange virtue in a Gascon; but when he has a subject in hand to discuss, he begins willingly and almost invariably prefaces his remarks with "Let's get down to business." His aunt says of him: "I always wait until Ferdinand has chewed his third cigar before I look for him to come out of his thoughts and talk...
...studied. The western universities are alone in their field, and, in general, do not face the big-city question. Perhaps a comparative study of Oxford and the University of London would provide as parallel an example as can be found. At all events, so comprehensive an action must wait upon a thorough investigation of the changes it may effect in the social and educational structure...
...this, we are impersonally discussing the system itself and we should like to see the day come again when Yale men gave their services to Yale football teams without charge other than traveling expenses, and the coaching be under the care of younger graduates who could wait a few months in the Fall after graduation, before entering business, to take charge...
...Bells, performed in a Manhattan Theatre. O'Donnell was Eddie Garvie. The wounded man was Clifton Self. The woman who fainted was Shirley Booth. The laughing onlookers were the audience. They thought it was a joke until the curtain went down and they had to endure a long wait while Garvie was arrested and Self was treated to bandages and salve. Then up went the curtain and the play was finished. Afterward, Garvie was taken to jail, but released subsequently on $500 bail...