Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your short article on grand opera in New Orleans (TIME, July 12) ... your correspondent recounts an anecdote that "during one performance of Faust, an expectant mother is said to have turned to her husband, remarking: 'Pierre, I do not think I can wait for the ballet...
...says: "It was a religion my Pappa had for opera, yas. Me, I can show you that box at the opera where I am almost born! It was Les Huguenots and when the chorus sing-'La-Lal-la'-Mommon say to Pappa, 'Felix, me, I cannot wait for that ballet...
...cargo nets. But survivors should jump only as a last resort: a man may be knocked out by a high leap, or hit an obstruction. Best emergency exit: a fire hose, because it offers a surer grip than a rope. Hose or rope should be descended slowly. Wait until the feet are in the water before letting go: distance is easy to misjudge under stress. Never go over the lee side: ships drift downwind faster than a man can swim; loose gear floats close to the ship on the lee side...
...Shoot the bastard, we can't wait here all day," a soldier growled...
...think those lilting refrains emanate from every Monday and Wednesday nights? Yas, sub, from none other than our own swing band. Who's in it, and where do they come from? Well, stand at ease, fella, and we'll tell ya. Thus far we've got five pieces--now wait a second, wuddya mean they probably don't sound so hot with only five fellas? Listen, skipper, each one of those jive bugs is an orchestra in himself. You still don't believe it? O.K., just name a man in these parts who can give out on the trumpet like...