Word: vigilance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" Whenever a wreck on the beach is toss'd, It gives one beat for each life that is lost, And ghosts are legion that have heard the turn That rolls from the head of the Indian drum. It keeps its vigil with a measured thrum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" And never in the records has a wrong beat come- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" A brave and his bride once went for a sail And both of them perished in the terrible gale: But all that...
...States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael Curley came with his son to kneel beside the shrine. Last week the estimated attendance...
...Still a third who was to have received an L.L.D. was Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur. Day before the ceremony, he telegraphed that he was unavoidably detained in Washington. His reason: Constant vigil at the bedside of Secretary of War Good, who died a few hours before it was time for Secretary Wilbur to entrain for Chicago...
...Kippur (Day of Atonement), Jewish holiday, vigil of fasting and repentance. Oct. 15-Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes leaves New York on yacht lamara for two-month European cruise...
...gracious tribute is paid in the new bronze tablet erected at Princeton to the honor of those who have served their alma mater by long hours of vigil on the side line benches. The words, "In appreciation of our Princeton football scrubs--past, present, and future" graven on the walls of the field house near the dressing room of the scrubs justly recognizes the men who day by day have given their time and taken the knocks to put the winning polish on the first eleven. Where the roaring plaudits of loyal backers comes to university athletics, gratitude...