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...double shuffle, timed to the march of the saints of the Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro inspirational preachers, what were they but God's slide trombones?* So conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among his fellow Negroes. He has let his memory doze back for the main themes of sermons he heard as a little boy. His intellectual faculty has played over the themes, spun them into folk poems without specious aid of dialect or ungrammatical rhetoric...
...point, the gentle art of falling asleep might drive out morphine and gin as a method for dodging the World crisis. A Victor record would become a substitute for an opiate. Putting his favorite record on the Victorla, any hypnotisee would recognize His Master's Voice and doze off into Elysium...
Resourceful, sage, the proprietor at once secured a black tomkitten. Patient, he began to train it to doze upon the bar and uphold the traditions of the house...
Royalty Stirred. When His Majesty was awakened at Windsor by the telephone message which announced the birth of his first granddaughter, pleasurable excitement definitely ended his slumbers. Unable to doze off again, he rose and brewed himself a cozy pot of tea. As the sun peeped above the Windsor Hills, he went ahorseback riding. Soon he and Queen Mary motored to Bruton Street...
When a few jokes have been added, R. E. Sumney '25 will recite the bed time story. Then before the listeners in doze off, John Bird '24, graduate of Cambridge University, England, will offer some humor in the English style. Another number by the orchestra will conclude the evening's entertainment...