Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both in London and Washington the rumor ran that Britain's Ambassador had returned to pack his bags, wait for his successor to be announced. If Lord Halifax had heard the rumor, he did not let on. He called at the White House, spent 50 minutes talking with the President. Said he: "We exchanged impressions. . . ." Asked about a report that Russia may be considering a separate peace with Germany, he answered flatly: "There is absolutely no sign of that...
...lower himself on a length of rope which had been dropped to him from an airplane. When his foot slipped, he clambered fearfully back. The rope was too short, anyhow. National Park Service officials, who had been sending instructions via plane, ordered him to stay where he was, wait until they could think of something. Hopkins resigned himself to spending the night there. Park Service mountain climbers tried to get up, failed. Planes dropped food, blankets, wood for a fire, whiskey, a megaphone, which Hopkins used to screech out a request for some funny papers...
...Moncks Corner, S.C. The bride, a refugee from Manhattan's Stork Club-excommunicated for scene-raising-had a bottle opener for a wedding ring. Blonde Vivian Stokes, 18, who canceled her debut after Jakie announced he would wed her, got the news of the elopement while she waited for Jakie in a nightclub. Said the ex-fiancée impetuously: "Jakie can have his Lemmon. . . . I'm going to look for a job." Said the bride: wandering Jakie (ex-sailor, ex-pilot, teller of tall tales, lover of tattoos) would also look for a job-in Hollywood. Said...
...calls (via lackey holding portable phone) while lunching at Hollywood's Brown Derby is to acquire izzat. To work for a mere $1,000 a week after once earning $2,000 is to lose izzat. Film folk of superior izzat, putting in a phone call to an inferior, wait studiously until the inferior is on the wire before deigning to pick up the telephone receiver. Peter the Hermit, who struts along Hollywood Boulevard in his bare feet, is short on cash but long on izzat...
Instead of being able to amass their ranks for an out-and-out repeal of the Act, the Administration forces must wait and time their vote on Section 2 from two cues: the size and promptness of the vote on the ship-arming ban, and the success of opposition arguments in influencing public opinion. Once more, the War Congress has been hog-tied by the President's incurable habit of double talk, of trying to let the American people down easy on the one hand, and to defeat Hitler on the other...