21.   A cache of big black umbrellas is waiting by the front door in case of a sudden downpour.

22.   Afterward, with a huge media group waiting by his locker, he emerged and walked by without a word.

23.   Bush and her lawyer, William P. Allison, eluded the half dozen news cameras waiting outside by entering through a back door.

24.   But in years to come, transplant patients may be able to bypass hospital waiting lines by getting spare body parts made from their own cells.

25.   But the owner was not waiting by the phone Tuesday because Showalter had vowed that Steinbrenner would have to contact him to reconvene negotiations.

26.   Early each morning, Bob, Arthur, Molly and dozens of other scraggly felines scurry out of their dens and drainpipes and faithfully wait by their paper plates.

27.   For months, I literally waited by the mailbox, hoping for word from the many people who must have known by then but had never responded.

28.   I always kid her, and tell her she would wait by the mailboxes all day until I came down to get mine!

29.   In doing so, they also told wayward franchises from Montreal and Florida to wait by the door.

30.   In Los Angeles, gaggles of men dressed as Gloria Swanson used to wait by the stage door.