"Do you quality for the heavy-wait award?"  From The Improvement Era, 1969.

From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1898.

From Elson Basic Readers Pre-Primer by William Elson, 1934.

"How much longer will it be?"  From Awake Magazine, 1966.

"Girls waited in agony."  From Henderson State Teachers College's 1960 yearbook.

From Indiana University's 1978 yearbook.

"Here and waiting."  From The Improvement Era, 1970.

"Don't wait for the call."  From Lighted Pathway, 1983.

"The cat waits."  From Adventures in Child Land by Frances Lilian Taylor, 1928.

"I waited for you in America."  From The Martlet, 1977.

From Kent State's 1980 yearbook.

"Why love asks you to wait."  From The Link, 1963.

We checked, and it's true that everybody's waiting for Thursday.  That's a major plot point in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, as Mary's love interest Dennis keeps setting up momentous rendezvous on Thursdays.  From The Film Daily, 1937.

Expectations.  From Stern's 1966 yearbook.

"Waiting," from Australian Sketches Made on Tour by Harry Furniss, 1899.