Word: waked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are ignored! Small wonder they pack up and go to a university which does not refuse to recognize their potentialities by a guarantee that they will be maintained for a reasonable length of time. Yale cannot afford to sacrifice good teachers to other universities. It is time to wake up and see why we are losing them...
...husband and family who cut into her career; possibly directors do not think she is good. The former are selfish and the latter are dense. In this picture, there is not much narrative. Poor old papa went to jail and for a while it seemed that daughter would wake up some morning and find that working girls do get into trouble. Papa was, of course, innocent; employer was honorable; daughter reaped the reward of virtue. And all of this is quite acceptable under the deft and decorative touch of Mary Philbin...
...years ago today the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. America needed just that shock to force active participation in the world war. The bitter wave of hatred which followed in the wake of this calamity swept America forward to the rescue of the Allied nations. It was for is great cause...
...world, faced Stanislaus Zbyszko, 58-year-old Pole, who weighed 50 pounds less (210) and stood not higher than his shoulder. In days that were, Zbyszko himself had been a champion, but those days were past. Philadelphians gathered to the match with the steadfast mien of people attending a wake. They admired Zbyszko's courage* but deplored his bravado...
Perversely the serpent censorship refuses to die. The Puritans revived it and brought on as a result the reaction of an unrestrained Restoration era. Even today the abortive principle occasionally raises its ugly head. Fortunately the very absurdity of the events and comments it drags in its wake are enough to disclose its own true and repelling nature...