Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Straton has been a vigorous foe of the modern dancing, through his investigations causing the arrest of several proprietors of New York dancing palaces. He believes that a dance craze has fallen upon the American people, and following along in its wake are drinking and licentiousness...
...hoped that conditions would soon be altered to warrant Japan following with recognition-in the wake of Britain and Italy...
...numbers tonight will include, in addition to two obligatos for the Glee Club, Tartini's "Concerto in D," and Beethoven's "Seven Variations on a Theme by Mozart." The most notable of the Glee Club's numbers will be "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee," from Bach's "Sleepers Wake...
...talks a lot, but talks well; is never dull. Last week Mr. Swope?Herbert Bayard Swope?newspaperman extraordinary and editor plenipotentiary, put over a coup. Swope, executive editor of The New York World, went to Washington in a private car, trailing substantial citizens and potent business men in his wake. He returned home jingling the Democratic National Convention of 1924 in his pocket. The story of that event really began 42 years and 10 days earlier, when the cyclonic Swope bounded into the world at St. Louis. He traveled the reportorial route via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune...
...absence of active dramatic material in the life of Lee, the playwright took upon himself the leaden load of unrelieved character drawing. Lee was, first of all, a gentleman; gentlemen make a point of avoiding the spectacular. An even keel of character can leave only a steady wake. Steadiness implies monotony...