Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd toward the court house to get seats for the day's proceedings in the trial of Teacher John Thomas Scopes, alleged violator of the state's antievolution law, bewildered instrument of Science and Faith which have accidentally chosen Dayton as their battleground and in whose wake has come the usual camp-following of freaks, fakes, mountebanks and parasites of publicity...
...next visitors called upon the Pope in the wee hours of the morning. His Holiness was in bed, and in order not to wake him the gentlemen made as little noise as possible; in order not to disturb his court, they considerately let themselves in by the roof of St. Peter's Basilica, visited the sacristy (treasury for sacred ornaments), left with valuables-an antique ring, a pectoral cross, a gilded chalice ornamented with pearls, a gold chalice and, among other things, a gold service for the mass presented by Cardinal Merry del Val. Two days later, robbers...
...poor puffin! The poor gannet, poor razorbill, poor gull, guillemot, cor morant, tern and albatross! Ships that pass in the day or night vomit over the oceans the black waste of their oil-burning engines. Puffin, gannet, razor bill, gull, guillemot, cormorant, tern or albatross, dipping in their wake to gobble up some bilge morsel, floats flapping and crippled among the sliding sea hills, unable to rise for a cloying anointment that lays his feathers flat, seals his wings. He wearies, starves, sickens, dies, is flung ashore by the tides to testify in flyblown silence to the tyranny...
WHITE HOUSE VISITOR: "President Coolidge, I would like to see you press a button to wake the entire nation every morning...
...COOLIDGE : "But who would press a button to wake...