Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deck was extracted from an old Belasco play entitled Shore Leave, the plot of which charts the adventures of the hostess (Louise Groody) of a sailors' inn, who follows in the wake of Sailor Bilge Smith (Charles King), finally towing him away from all those sweethearts in every port to her own suddenly acquired opulence. In addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written...
...offers his theory for what is known as the suicide wave among students. He begins by pointing out that as a wave the number of deaths amounts to no more than the annual tide which has always swept in from the uncharted seas of adolescence, bringing disaster in its wake. Nevertheless, objects the writer--and this is at once his most salient and vulnerable point this tide is too enormous, too appalling, to be accepted as fate. Some place between matriculation and the commencement platform there is an evil--one which has no place in the lives of what...
...dark, moonless midnight, ten midWest yokels armed with sticks surrounded a sidetracked private car. "Wake up, Hen! Wake up, Hen!" they shouted, then thwacked the car mightfully for half an hour. "Hey! Wake up, Hen! How's your brother Bill...
...kept himself and his opinion of U. S. yokels concealed until his car was coupled to a through express. His mission (it was in 1902) was to foment good will; and perhaps, when he returned to Germany, he confided only to his "brother Bill" the tale of "Wake up, Hen!" But last week, at Kiel, Prince Henry recalled the story as he celebrated the 50th anniversary of his entrance into the Imperial Navy...
...leaves them stranded desolate on the rocks of approaching middle age. Admittedly the family is neurotic, but disease hardly accounts for the series of catastrophes which these brothers and sisters are made to endure. Drunkenness, seduction and insanity furnish the foundation of Miss Sinclair's book. In their wake remain the utter ruins of a social group...