Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carrying the idea into later life one could well refuse to pay one's income tax--on the grounds that one was a committee. And a committee's policy is always to wait till the next session or the next President. Everything would be so easy--if one were a committee...
...other hand, it is hardly to be expected that work of this essentially more voluntary nature will be placed before activities of the relentlessly competitive type. The Brooks House will always have to wait--unless it chooses to inject some, kind of competitive spirit into its really non-competitive work and ideals. But there seems to be no reason to hope for great expansion. The Brooks House "has been respectable, conscientious and vaguely approved of"--certainly as much as may be said of any similar organization in any community; it is not reasonable to demand at Harvard a greater interest...
...Even to the men elected to our committees, our work does not seem vital enough to sacrifice other activities for it. A man does not say, "I can not do that; I am working for the Brooks House." He says, "Sure I'll do it; the Brooks House can wait...
...driving wind the modern motor broke down and Coach Haines and his driver were driven ashore just below the Watertown Arsenal. But the distressed vessel did not appeal for help to the racy "Patricia" or to the "Brown Pup" or to the "White Pup". She was content to wait for the "John Harvard", which steamed majestically homeward against the wind, towing its now abject competitor behind...
Among the very few Americans to be granted special audience by the Pope while the Cardinals-designate wait for their birettas were Mr. Isaac Gimbel and Mr. Charles Gimbel, owners of great stores. They came with a letter from Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia. Marshal Foch, a devout Catholic, also came to town...