Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the thoughts of the Japanese Government to impair the rights and interests of American citizens in China or discriminate against their enterprises." Tucked away at the end of the note was a paragraph which, translated to plainer, less diplomatic language, was blunt advice to the U. S. to wake up and realize that...
...eighth annual Forum on Current Problems. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn (Little Women, Little Minister, Alice Adams, Mary of Scotland, Quality Street), attacked the cinema industry for its ostrich attitude: ". . . Let a movie try to depict situations in which we are all involved now; let a movie try to wake people up to their own plight . . . ; let a movie try to present a moral, economic or political problem of today honestly and simply, and they are advised to hear nothing, say nothing, do nothing...
...their plight, both Germany and Czechoslovakia were responsible. Booted from Sudetenland by Nazi Storm Troopers who came in the wake of the German Army, the starving, penniless refugees were refused admission to Czechoslovakia ostensibly because they were technically citizens of Germany, actually because Czechoslovakia has no wish for refugees who cannot support themselves...
Piece de resistance of this umpire, however, is his ability to nip trouble in the bud. Upon being asked what was the toughest time he ever had, he mentioned the Duke-Wake Forest game over a decade ago as being "the nearest to trouble...
...they had a stiff assignment down in Raleigh, N. C. I told 'em that was too far to go, but when they said they had chosen me because they figured I could complete the game, I showed interest. They told me that the clash between these schools (the small Wake Forest and the big Duke, only 20 miles apart) had broken up in free-for-alls for the last couple of years...