... in fact, so unpopular among the Democratic senators and members of the House that a story which Zebulon Vance, of North Carolina, told went all over the country and still survives. Vance, who had a large proportion of the citizens of North Carolina on his waiting list, and could get none of them appointed, said that the situation, which ought to be one of rejoicing at the election of a president by his own party, was like that of a client of his who had inherited a farm from his father. There ... — My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew
... be good up to an hour before take-off time, she learned. If not claimed then, it would be filled from the last-minute waiting list. ... — Legacy • James H Schmitz
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