Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hammer- &tongs. Mindful of the crusading tradition inherited with its recent purchase of the World, the World-Telegram editorialized, in language less elegant, less thunderous but no less clear than Joseph Pul-itzer's writers used to use: ''Soon the idea may get across to Tammany. Soon Tammany may wake up and realize that even a political machine can get gummed up with too much politics." World-Telegram Colyumist Heywood Broun began organizing a mass meeting "in answer to the average citizen's question: 'What can I do?'" The Daily News thought that the municipality's only salvation...
...Wake" is perhaps the best of the collection. The plot is more tenuous than the others in the book, so Byrne is thrown entirely upon his own power of phraseology to carry if off successfully. It is here that we find him most like the Byrne of "The Wind Bloweth," or "Hangman's House...
Republican Reaction. Bonus developments followed thick & fast in the wake of Mr. Young's trip to Washington. Ways & Means Republicans under the able leadership of New Jersey's Bacharach went to work on a bill for upping the certificates' loan value. The House Republican leadership (Speaker Longworth, Floorleader Tilson, Rules Chairman Snell) was frankly receptive to any compromise to stave off cash payments though it was denied that the G. O. P. had been inspired by "the Young Plan," that any Bonus Bill would be passed which distinguished between veterans who were needy and veterans who were...
Calling upon kindred spirits in all nations to rally to the banner of "Futurist food," Signer Marinetti somewhat further defined this rather vague conception: "The whole world must wake up and invent Futurist lunches and dinners. We must begin with abolishing volume and weight in our food and we must get up a new Futurist mixture which will consist in mixing only the nutritious parts of the food according as scientists will have to discover. . . . The deliciousness of food must be 'immensified' so as to comprise a sensation of all the joys in the universe...
Married. Otelie E. ("Tilly") Losch, 27, Viennese danseuse (Wake Up and Dream); and Edward Francis Willis James, 23, British "retired diplomat," brother-in-law of Marshall Field III, cousin of Board Chairman Arthur Curtiss James of Western Pacific Railroad Co.; in Manhattan...