Word: awakenning
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...Wendell Willkie at his Manhattan house, summoned musicians to see it. Putting politics before mythology, he crowed: "We are going to elect Willkie the conductor of 130,000,000 people for four years. ... He is playing the music from Wagner's opera Siegfried, in which Siegfried comes to awaken Brünnehilde, who has been asleep for eight years...
America May Awaken...
...this book, McClatchie warns that if the U. S. continues its tendency towards involvement, "Americans may suddenly awaken from their idealistic wish-dreaming to discover that war is war and that they are in the midst thereof without an ally in the whole wide world...
Chief organizer of the Defense League has been Charles O. Porter 1L, who stated after the meeting last night his conviction that "the sooner we get into the war, the better it will be for America." His own motive in starting a Defense League at Harvard was to awaken undergraduates to the "main issue of the terrible Germans against the wonderful...
...between two and six o'clock in the morning, thereby preventing all-night parking. Moreover, Riverview Avenue, which is really a driveway in front of Winthrop and Leverett Houses, paralleling Memorial Drive, has been accepted as a city street. Therefore Bunnies or Puritans who have parked there may possibly awaken to find that their cars have been towed away at their own expense...