Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congressman Upshaw remarked to Will Rogers (according to Will) as the audience dispersed: "Why did they wait till this late in the Convention to pray...
...going to accept the Dawes and McKenna reports, we will take you at your word. We have no preparations to meet any default on your part. If after this solemn obligation you do default, then we and our Allies will be closer than ever. We will wait for the event. But we trust...
...heavy term of the Supreme Court, all that awaited the very merry and beloved gentleman was rest, complete rest. His doctor forbade all divertisements in the haunts of men. He was bidden to go straight to his home at Murray Bay, near the Saguenay River, and there wait the Summer out. Sitting on the St. Lawrence, he must practice being healthy according to his dictum: "Oranges and discipline, that's the recipe...
...should an artist wait until her career is ended to write her reminiscences?" cries Maria Jeritza* on the first page of her memoirs.† She has answered the question by publishing them in midcareer. Her book is chock-full of merry notes, and will be greedily devoured by lovers of personal chit-chat about beautiful and important people. There is the story of the strong-man Graff 1, who played Ursus in the opera Quo Vadis, and had to hold the prima donna in his arms for ten minutes at a time. "But oh," wails Jeritza, "how many times...
Some one had been caught napping. Senator King of Utah had been lying in wait for the bill. But he left the Chamber for a moment. Senator Borah was supposed to be on guard to see that the bill did not pass. He spoke to Senator Hale, Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, and had an understanding that the bill would not be brought up at that time. So he, too, left the chamber...