Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gypsy Rose Lee walked off with a small Degas under her arm, too excited to wait for the rest of the auction. At the book sale particularly, connoisseurs held their seats as the prices skyrocketed. The Manet ellustrées published in 1929, containing Manet watercolor reproductions in color, went for $360-though its Paris price ten years ago was around $30. The collection was a market sensation from Derain to Dufy, from Rouault to Renoir. It was strongest in works by Crowninshield's old friends, French Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac and French Sculptor Charles Despiau. Highest...
...Monday or Tuesday. We save our big stuff for Wednesday. In the end we suffer the same percentage loss. It's as though a family set aside $5 a week in their budget for pleasure, then decided to wait a month, save up $20 and blow the whole works on a damn good time...
...Appian Way. Powerful Allied blows hit the German flanks. A British amphibian force struck north of the Volturno's mouth, from the Tyrrhenian Sea. German artillery lay in wait. But that did not stop the Tommies. From American-type, bow-opening craft they landed, dug in. Offshore, the British destroyers Laforey and Lookout and The Netherlands gunboat Flores shelled the German defenses. The action was fierce, costly. But the bridgehead...
Before penicillin can be called a cure for syphilis, says Dr. Mahoney. it must succeed in a huge number of cases over a long period. Such a workout must wait until more penicillin is available, probably after the war. But Dr. Mahoney, whom other syphilologists call a "sound" man, was enough impressed by penicillin's performance to say that "a reconstruction of syphilis therapy may be necessary." And a doctor who took the platform to comment on his speech went even further. Said he: "This is probably the most significant paper ever presented in the medical field...
...moment to the affairs that really matter, my roommates and myself would like to request, somewhat wist fully, that student officers with pretty wives would declare the sidewalk in front of Morris Hall out of bounds. It seems that many of these officers allow their women folk to wait for them in front of our window and it is rather disconcerting to serious minded students to see so many well turned ankles gambolling around in front of them. Pulling the shades doesn't work because Rusty Mueller simply can't stand to have the shades down when he knows women...