Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herald-Tribune (Rep.) : "Wait until I get it lighted...
...dimes for tidying the Elbert premises, for minding the Elbert car, for carrying the Elbert market-basket, for going to bed promptly, for not whining or barking or "playing with other dogs." He was said to go to the bank with his weekly savings, deposit them with the teller, wait for his pass book, trot home. His balance was "$68 with no withdrawals." He was saving "against the infirmities...
More recently, in Manhattan, a "piebald" comedian, involved in a girl-beating scandal, smashed the camera of a Daily News photographer who had lain in wait for him at a cabaret door...
DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely...
...Ardsley, N. Y., 24 golfers propelled a single ball about a 6,100-yd. course in 24 min. 51 sec.* Playing in relays, the players lay in wait at calculated intervals, shot the ball along when it came to them, were whisked ahead by motors to new stations when their shots had been played. The score was not reported...