Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wait until we're out of seminary, we'll be sterile...
...Furstenberg was on trial for shooting her "husband" on the pretext that she mistook him for a prowler. The prosecuting attorney, in real life Manhattan's Seventh District Assemblyman Daniel Kelly, had built up a damaging case against her. "It all looks very black for us, but wait until I take the stand!" she cried. Verdict's lawyers get just as engaged, lose their tempers in "court," on one occasion nearly came to blows afterward. Said Betsy's Defense Attorney Richard Tilden: "I didn't sleep well nights, worrying about that case...
...Anton Schill, the man who in Claire's youth denied that her child was his and made her an outcast and a prostitute. When the town rejects such an offer at the expense of a much esteemed citizen, Claire does not argue; she can afford, she announces, to wait...
...Gingold and Isabel Jeans) are taking no chances with such bad heredity. They drill the little girl in the fundamentals of her profession: 1) the proper way to eat an ortolan ("Bad table manners have broken up more homes than infidelity"); 2) the proper method of assaying a jewel ("Wait for the first-class jewels, Gigi. Hold on to your ideals!"); 3) the proper attitude toward marriage (''Instead of getting married at once, it sometimes happens we get married at last...
Explained Nicol shakily: "We have this madonna of the tissue, throatily advising us that there is no waste as she plucks two pieces apart. We wait in vain for her to produce a comb and give us a musical selection. It becomes clear that her purpose is not artistic but utilitarian...