Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many things. They will know the faces and the ways of those they knew as boys, who are now grown to great affairs. They will know the faces and the ways of some who have slipped out of sight. These ghosts will wander about the dignified old hall and wait for better times. Whiting in the Boston Herald...
...President, in a speech to the press, the first since his inauguration last month, said that foreign creditors must wait, that Mexico's first need is to balance her budget.* He was certain that all internal debts could be paid without recourse to loans, and when the Nation's house was in order, the outside debt could and would be looked after. "The principal efforts of my Government," the President said, "during the first months and possibly during the first year will be balancing the budgets. To obtain this I will follow only patriotic roads honestly and logically...
...must jump, wait and then pull the rip cord. Otherwise the parachute may become entangled in the tail surfaces of the plane. This is undoubtedly what Sergeant Gilbert failed to dp. The instinctive impulse to pull the rip cord prevailed over careful training and the shrouds were cut by the sharp cables of the plane's rear...
...city upon Edward of Wales. Last week, two distinguished Manchurian citizens had an audience with Mayor Curley but came away without city keys. Asked if he had not forgotten something, said Mayor Curley: "No, . . . not with all this competition from Lafayette Mulligan. I guess I'll wait till he dies before I give away another...
...Affairs protested because it had not been consulted by the Chamber's Finance Commission about the suppression of credits for the Embassy at the Vatican. On the advice of M. Louis Loucheur, who favors France maintaining diplomatic relations with the Pope, the commission decided to close discussion, preferring to wait until the question should come before the Chamber when everybody would express himself publicly on his own responsibility...