Word: waits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Edmund Dewey celebrated his 35th birthday last week, but he had to wait until next day to get the finest present of his life. It was given him by a jury which for more than nine weeks had been listening to the case he had built up, as New York City's brilliant Special Prosecutor, against seven men accused of running a Manhattan restaurant racket...
...good health. After all, it is only the twisted decisions of a few justices that have established this unnatural connection between the meaning of the Constitution and their continued existence. Unless Mr. Roosevelt can somehow circumvent the consequences of the social prepossessions of several justices, he is forced to wait unhappily for their deaths. Those who would admit a changed constitutional interpretation only when the objectionable judges die really argue for assassination. Sincerely, R. I. Bishop...
...turned into an Eagle Scout whose passion for doing the country a good turn every day has at last got out of hand. His 'Now' remarks were a giveaway- the utterances of a petulant saviour. America doesn't need to be saved today; it can wait till tomorrow. Meanwhile, Mister, we'll sleep...
Spain Laughs is a series of casually connected scenes occurring in the camp of the Loyalists as they wait for the exchange party to show up. A court-martial condemns to death a captured Rebel and an old man who helped insurgents. A prostitute promises to reform, help the government cause. A man quarrels with his son for joining the milicianos, then volunteers himself. The sergeant greets his rank of recruits as ''Soldiers of Free Spain," shakes each by the hand, calls him ''Comrade!" When the Loyalist general is finally brought back, the treacherous Rebels manage...
...five years nearly doubled his investment. And there he picked up the first of his own hangers-on, one Pauli, a somewhat shady gentleman whom Butler supported thenceforth till Pauli's death. Back in England again, Butler settled down in London to read at the British Museum, write, wait for the comfortable inheritance which would come to him when his father died. All Butler's books were published at his own expense, and only one (Erewhon) made money. All of them annoyed or offended his father, but Butler was careful not to plague his parent to the point...