Word: waits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts' 400,000 unemployed. When more than 500,000 Democrats turned out for the Hurley-Curley, they gave Mr. Curley nearly 3-to-2 victory over Mr. Hurley. Mr. Curley at once offered his services to Governor Hurley to supervise hurricane relief work. Mr. Hurley let him wait in an anteroom for 90 minutes...
...allowed to smoke or drink, though he is permitted to walk upstairs and do other things which persons with weak hearts should not do." Furthermore, he added, the 27-year-old patrolman has excellent chances for long life. Said jubilant William Manning: "I can hardly wait to get back on my beat. I drive my own car . . . and even play a little ball occasionally with the neighborhood kids...
...misleading. With Prime Minister Chamberlain dramatically seeking peace from Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden (see p. 75), tension was less that evening than it had been for several days. Mr. Hull met the President's train mostly as a favor to the press. Otherwise reporters would have had to wait through a wet evening before filing accounts of the President's conference with his top diplomat. Similarly, the President's press conference was really canceled because he needed time to read reports. And Secretary Woodring had gone to the station for no reason more pressing than courtesy...
...dark of early morning, long before the regular 10 o'clock opening hour, a Freshman who just couldn't wait to get started on his college career sneaked into Memorial Hall and signed his name--William Eustis--that interminable number of times that seem to be required, thus becoming the first official member of his class...
...jumped ponderous Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker, waving his arms at the witness. "Wait!" boomed he. "I ask for a mistrial...