Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Lyon Phelps (professor-critic) wrote in his department, As I Like It, in June Scribner's magazine: ". . . Sometimes in solitude I explode with laughter; sometimes I wake up in the night to laugh at some memory. How can one help laughing in and at a world like this...
Seismograph needles, the world over, jumped wildly a fortnight ago. So violently did the earth tremble that many a seismograph was jarred out of commission. One of the severest shocks in years had occurred and scientists pictured one of history's worst disasters in its wake. That evening they expected to find the press full of hideous headlines-cities razed, thousands killed, islands submerged, raging fires...
...Blue Grotto to an English girl with an Alice-blue Rolls-Royce, climbing Aetna, playing Ulysses ("handsome, heaven-sent Greek") to a 65-year-old bobbed grandmother's Calypso, and reading "The Return of Ulysses" at Ithaca, having completed what was begun, a trip in the wandering wake of Ulysses doing all he did and several things besides...
...Lady Screams. Not even two blistering screams furnished by the heroine were enough to wake up the gasping plot or the exhausted audience as this play wandered through an unhappy two and a half hours. Stolen pearls, a onetime manicurist protegee were the chief concerns of the Yale dramatic student author...
Just as there is honor among thieves, so is there quarrelling among booksellers. The American Association of Booksellers has "viewed with alarm" the growing power of such groups as the Book-Of-The-Month-Club and the several organizations which have followed in the wake of its success. The objection is raised on the grounds that such procedure consultutes nothing but artificial stimulation, and that there are many equally deserving candidates which are doomed never to win popularity simply because they have not been officially recognized as being among the "best...