Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...association singles, he beat W. E. G. Gilmore, of Baltimore, who two weeks ago won the Canadian quarter-mile title at St. Catherine's, Ont. He then splashed over a choppy mile-and-a-quarter course to the national singles championship. In his wake struggled Hilton Belyea, fisherman-oarsman of St. John, N. H., 1922 Canadian champion, and Paul V. Costello, of Philadelphia, 1922 national champion...
...wake of Emile Coué, many innovations, scientific and otherwise, have followed. There is, for instance, " Sister" Mabel Harrell, nurse of New York, who has effected miraculous " cures" in Harlem, Negro enclave of the metropolis. Cripples, paralytics, the blind and deaf, idiot children have flocked to her meetings in an ecstasy of evangelical fervor. Prayer, hymn-singing, the laying on of hands, and unquestioning faith are her only accessories. These "cures " are, of course, explainable by perfectly natural psychological processes, and are nothing new under the sun. For certain types of afflictions, and with certain religious temperaments, Sister Harrell...
...articles are accounts rather than thoughtful opinions. Life in these colleges seems to be contentedly intra-mural, with a superficial reporting of what goes on outside. They seem to forget, except for short intervals, that they are in life themselves not just looking at it disinterestedly. But they do wake up sometimes, and each time with increasing vigor and justness...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE;?Bernard Shaw's version of rebellion?half psychology, half melodrama. Sophisticated snorers had best instruct the ushers to wake them before the last act in which Roland Young's performance is more than worth any half hour's sleep...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE?Bernard Shaw's version of rebellion?half psychology, half melodrama. Sophisticated snorers had best instruct the usher to wake them before the last act in which Roland Young's performance is more than worth any half hour's sleep...