Word: waits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intervals Il Duce's voice dwindled thinly. The excited crowd, eager to miss nothing, shouted: "Louder! Louder!" At one point Mussolini turned wearily to his aides, declared, "I am tired. If they wait until tomorrow they can read my speech in the newspapers." The superstitious lost no time in pointing out that it was the first time the Dictator had ever publicly admitted fatigue. Excerpts...
Married. Louise Hovick, 23, famed Burlesque Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee until she turned to the cinema; to Robert Mizzy, 25, wealthy New York dental supply dealer. Unwilling to wait the three days required in California between posting of intention to marry and wedding, they hired a water taxi, went 20 miles out to sea and in the presence of two witnesses were married by the captain...
...that Lawyer Colombo strode toward the dais, waving his hands, declaring: "There must be some rule of fairness in this." Up jumped Examiner Lindsay, crying: "Now wait a minute, wait a minute." Yelled Lawyer Colombo: "Wait a minute yourself...
...American colonies; privately, and especially after reports of the first American victories, his confidence in the Government dropped to zero. In his last term he decided "the country could be ruled by boys for all he cared." He was now free to settle down abroad to complete his history, wait for relatives to die to solve his financial problems, bask in the attention paid him by Europe's greatest authors, but more particularly by pretty women, and acquire at last the warming conviction that he was the Roman Empire...
...Willett, startled the faithful within and without his flock when, presumably acting for Louisville's Bishop John A. Floersh, he declared that the currently fashionable, crownless "halo hats" are inadequate for Catholic church wear. Quipped Vicar General Willett: "I am sorry that the ladies here will have to wait until they get to heaven before they can wear their halos...