Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian, and being anti-Communist does not automatically mean they are pro-war." Snapped Playwright Lillian Hellman: "I would recommend, Mr. Cousins, that when you talk about your hosts at dinner, wait until you have gone home...
...editor of the anti-Communist magazine Politics, asked Fadeev at a press conference what had happened to several Soviet writers who have disappeared, Daily Worker Columnist Howard Fast jumped up and cried: "I know what has happened to all the people who could not be here with us ... I wait myself to be arrested at any time." Fast seemed overly apprehensive. Even Leipzig-born Communist Gerhart Eisler, facing deportation, was at liberty and in attendance at the big meeting...
...just a starter. The Brooklyn Symphony was playing only twice this season. But, beamed one Brooklynite: "As they say at Ebbets Field, wait till next year...
...West Dallas, Tex. keeps a barber chair just outside his office door, and a bottle of bright red hair tonic on his desk. "It's real loud-smelling tonic," says he. "That brings them in." It does, sometimes at the rate of twelve a day-pupils who might wait a long time for a haircut if it weren't for the little shop right there next to the principal's office...
Across the Seas. If frontal attacks failed, Trippe was ready with an end-around play. In 1930, he made a deal with the British for landing rights so that Pan Am could fly the Atlantic. But he agreed to wait till the British were ready to fly too. By December 1934, when his Martin 1305, the first clippers, were ready, the British were not. Trippe.called in his staff and said: "We'll fly the Pacific instead." When the balky British refused him entry into Hong Kong, Trippe sent his planes to nearby Macao. Hong Kong merchants raised such...