Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wesley Wait of Newburgh, N. Y., wrote a letter to President Harding urging him to take action if Governor Smith of New York should sign a bill passed by the state legislature to repeal New York's prohibition enforcement law. Said Mr. Wait: " Every state official who voted for this bill is subject to the law of treason, having taken the oath to sustain the Constitution of the United States...
...Amendment of the law to allow foreign ships to bring in their ship-stores of liquor under bond. Since this must wait till the next Congress convenes, serious foreign complications may arise in the meantime...
...much in the fact that it is a movement as in any inherent qualities. But "Youth" has turned against the ways of former generations; it declares itself capable and desirous of managing the world in a new and better way, and it demands a chance. The obvious answer is "Wait a few years and the reins are yours". In time, however, youth ceases to be youth and becomes fixed, obese, immobile. The best service the "Youth" movement can do is to preserve the youthful enthusiasm, youthful willingness to try, and youthful open-mindedness of its followers even after experience...
...rumored that he has been dead for some weeks. As no one can see the Premier of the Russian Soviet Government, dead or alive, and as the press censorship is so severe that there is no possibility of a leak through official channels, the world will have to wait the pleasure of the parsimonious Bolsheviki...
...only individual for whom the National Gallery has ever broken its rule against accepting the work of a living artist. Ihe gloomy, smoke-darkened pile facing Trafalgar Square and the Nelson Monument is as British an institution as Westminster Abbey. To be honored by either, artists have had wait for death...