Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sunset the Friday following Execution Tuesday. Boston health officials extended the time to Sunday. When the brains and hearts of the corpses had been removed for examination by Harvard medicos, Massachusetts returned what remained of its prisoners to their friends, who straightway sought a public hall for a public wake. But Boston hall owners refused to lease their property. Owners of the building in which the Defense Committee had offices caused a stout joist to be nailed in the building's doorway so that no coffin might be carried in. The Defense Committee had to be content with a small...
Realizing this, the Grand Central Galleries of New York held an exhibition early this summer aboard the Belgenland, showing landscapes, portraits, studies by contemporary U. S. artists (Murray Bewley, Ettore Caser, Gerrit Beneker, Lilian Westcott Hale, Hosvep Pushman, Paul King). Other ships have followed in the wake. The Aquitania became a nautical gallery by bringing to the U. S. Mrs. Dod Proctor's "Morning," the most notable painting in this year's Royal Academy show, for a short visit. The Hamburg-American liner New York exhibited last year the collection of the 15th Century canvasses which had hung...
Central Park, Manhattan, appears by day to be an ill-kept wasteland of stunted trees, ragged meadows, walks so tracked with gum-wrappers that they resemble the wake of a paper chase. At night not so; then the trees are like huge bundles of dark feathers, the lawns like scraps of green silk patterned with pathways. Here gum-chewers, muttering "loves me ... . loves me not . . ." as they tear the wrappers from their chiclets, take delight in strolling, in listening to the music coming from the Mall, where Edwin Franko Goldman conducts his band...
When the English governess of little Michael ran to wake him with news of the king's death and first addressed her charge as "your Majesty,"this large, serious eyes betrayed a vague puzzlement. Three days later he was still digesting his new title...
...rowing Messiah from the West, the cry of springtime in Cambridge has been, "This is the Year". In these same half dozen years Harvard crews have rowed as all crews row,--whole-heartedly, even valiantly. Some have been beaten badly, others have been kept with difficulty in the wake of Eli craft, but each year the result has been much the same and the early war cry has changed to the mournful notes of "Next Year". Thus it is with considerable trepidation that we utter the words, "This must be the Year...