Word: wagered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major portion of the play. Jan Farrand, too often the temptress in Brattle works, handles the role of Octavia with a naive idealism which is believable despite its inherent weakness. Cavada Humphrey and Earl Montgomery represent the hypocrisy of our American democracy carefully and accurately, and Michael Wager returns to Cambridge in a difficult role which he carries off with the skill and understanding of a seasoned actor...
Each had smacked the other in the face at ten second intervals since the grueling orgy began at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. Witnesses, who included the nine Leverett backers of the wager crowded into the tiny living-room and kept the competitors and a stop-watch under constant surveillance...
...provisions of the wager and the inspiration, itself, were worked out before the examination period, and the bettors waited two weeks before beginning the contest. The idea came from a bull session discussion of two Russian yogis who engaged in such a slug-fest 150 years ago, according to Robert Ripley The yogis allegedly had banged away for 72 hours without moving from their original position, the local rendition was performed in several different chairs and postures...
Sanctity. "Sanctity consists not of pleasant visions but of faithful discipline. To hold that we are religious only when we feel religious is a most depressing heresy. We may safely wager that the saint never feels like a saint. To make the efficacy of prayer and goodness dependent upon 'feeling' is akin to a Napoleon on the eve of battle calling it all off till he feels more heroic. In His ninth hour, Jesus did not feel the Father near-'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?'-but faith and obedience did not fail...
...simultaneously, of course. But only a deluded innocent would make Catherine (Totty) Lyons a substantial wager she couldn...