Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the boys of seventeen and twenty he will wait upon later in the morning are still asleep, the old man of seventy trudges daily to his work...
...France still has not picked the location not subscribed any adequate sum of money for the purpose. Instead of assuming that the Olympiad, properly staged, would bring thousands of visitors and millions of francs of Paris; the French attitude has been to spend as little as possible and wait for the millions to roll in of their own accord...
...time immemorial. But all this overflow of curiosity to gaze on champions, or white elephants, for that matter, is certainly not now and does not indicate a state of moral depravity any more now that it did in the days of that prince of "rubberneckers", Samuel Pepys, who "did wait two hours to behold the King his progress at the Whitehall Stairs. A very sorry show indeed...
...rather as a raconteur with a dash of Hazlitt and Lamb, than as a protagonist of conservatism and taut galluses that Mr. Lyons is interesting. "The Merry Wait" is one of the most finished of the stories, and the songs the Wait sings to spread Christmas cheer deserve framing or something better. This...
...with the enormous outlay constantly being invested in private ventures. Americans are notoriously stingy about any expenditure that savours in the least of public service, and correspondingly extravagant in satisfying the private wants; but thorough going support of the police is one part of the public service that cannot wait. It is one thing to talk about Crime Waves and their origins in idleness and unemployment, which will come to an end when "business picks up a bit"; but the most effective means of preventing any such wave from becoming permanent is by providing the machinery of the law with...