Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freak of nature, but think of the feelings of the dog. Even a dog has pride, and it behooves us who love football to remember that colleges also have pride in traditions and achievements that far outshadow the winning of a few games. If we forget it we may wake up some day and find that the dog has, with some pain, but no great sorrow, detached his tail...
...front cover) Any exhibit opening in the wake of the enormously popular van Gogh show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was bound to begin with an initial handicap. As if this were not enough, the Museum's discreet directors last week placed two additional handicaps upon the first comprehensive showing of one of its finest gift collections, simply because the Museum's principal benefactor happens to have a great name and a great modesty. Handicap No. 1 was encountered on the first floor in the form of a gigantic portrait of beefy, bewhiskered Henry Hobson...
Finally, one day last week, Dr. Martin R. Hoffman, psychiatrist from a nearby hospital, announced: "She will wake up tomorrow, because in repeated conversations all around her she has constantly heard it said it is the Lord's will that she waken on that day [the seventh]. If I had been able to convince her today that it was the day, or that we were alone in the room, she probably would have awakened immediately...
...city, big, brooding Otto Klemperer boarded a train for Los Angeles last week to take command of a Philharmonic Orchestra where audiences roundly hail him as a hero. During a 13-week session the towering German had led the New York Philharmonic through many a scholarly performance. In his wake a Carnegie Hall concert was called for 8:45 p. m. At 8:44 p. m. there came sauntering through the stage entrance a short, top-heavy man with piercing brown eyes, a militant goatee, a bland, self-assured manner. It was Sir Thomas Beecham's turn to conduct...
...that knew the local youth for the chaff they were. At an impressionable age she met and married a zealous young preacher, for the bad reason that they both felt called to be missionaries. Hand in hand they went through the wood-to China. Here Carie began to wake up, when she saw what Christianity meant to Chinese converts. When Chinese women sang hymns, "everyone sang as quickly and as loudly as she could. . . . No one sang the tune, but only his own. . . . The old lady next to her rocked back " forth squeaking in a high falsetto, gabbling...