Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fisher, rotund, rosy-cheeked Mr. Grundy smilingly entered the Senate chamber with Pennsylvania's Senator Reed to take the oath of office. By mistake he sat in the seat of Senator Norris, who was told that he had been himself "unseated." But for three hours Mr. Grundy had to wait while Senators violently abused him and Governor Fisher. With hands folded in his lap and a bland smile on his round face, he listened placidly to a torrential flow of senatorial invective. He heard himself called a "corrupt lobbyist," his appointment an "insult to decency," his Governor...
...Transvaal, South Africa, one F. A. Welthagen, hunter, sat down on the banks of the Brak River to wait for guinea fowl. Seven lions appeared, drank. Welthagen raised his gun, shot one who was drinking, another who was regarding him, another who ran toward him, a fourth who retreated-all in two minutes...
...Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked to believe that, after years of inaction, the Metropolitan was unwilling to wait two years more. Said the New York Evening Post: From 50 to 100 of the obstructing leases are held by speakeasies...
Professor Copeland will give what may be his last classroom reading today at 10 o'clock in Boylston 22. Those who do not what to wait until Copey's Christmas reading at the Union on December 17, may join the Freshmen in Mr. Dewey's English A section today, at the time and place specified above, and hear one of the reasons parents send their sons to Harvard...
Another Thanksgiving having become part of an undigested past, everybody settles down to wait for Christmas vacation. The significance of the day has unfortunately been rather widely dissipated in gourmandizing and various other pleasant pursuits. Turkey has assumed the role of the main feature of the day with numerous other foods coming close behind...