Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingenious experiment when he revived it. Surely he did so not because he wanted it to be preserved as a sample of ancestral art, but because he thought it was still good entertainment for the regular theatre-goer. He was right--but the regular theatre-goer hasn't waked up yet. "The Beggar's Opera" was an identical experiment, but in that case the theatre-goer did wake up. Perhaps it was the press-agent...
...situation is hound to become worse before it will improve," he declared, "because it is only after the matter has gone to extremes that the public will wake up and take action...
Indifference is a good cloak: it helps to keep one a good Democrat or a good Republican or even a good citizen, but it is hard on posterity. Some morning, say twenty cycles and four immensities ahead, the human race will wake up and chide the government because there is no sun. At 10 A. M. the officials, working by electric light, will have digged far into the ancient archives in search of prophecies concerning the present catastrophe. By 4 P. M. perhaps they will have found this entry: "Collision in Lyria...
...close match is expected at 5 o'clock this afternoon when Channing Wake-field 2L. is scheduled to meet W. P. Dixon '25 in the semi-final round of the fall squash racquets tournament. Wake-field is one of the strongest players in the Law School and has had greater experience in the game, since he was a member of the University team during the 1920-1921 season and was runner-up against D. S. Ingalls 3L. in last year's fall tournament. In using his head and in executing clever drop-shots he has already demonstrated his skill...
...object for which it was given must be revived or forcibly kept alive just to use the money of the gift. The McKay Fund left to Harvard, while not by any means an extreme of this sort, is an illustration of the legal complications that often follow in the wake of any specific bequest...