Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boulevard in the outskirts of Los Angeles raced two motorcycle policemen, followed by an Auburn speedster with a streamlined windshield fastened to the rear. Close behind was a bearded man on a bicycle, his tremendous legs pumping like pistons. Zipping along in the vacuum of the Auburn's wake, the bearded bicyclist hit 75, 80, 85 m. p. h. The motorcycle officers dropped out at 85. Auburn and bicyclist shot over the finish line at 90 m. p. h., were doing 100 m. p. h. before they slowed down. An A. A. A. official took pencil & paper, certified that...
...Colonel also added that nothing gave him more pleasure than being interviewed by a reporter. "If you don't cut out sending your candidates to me and misquoting everything I say, I will come over and raise the devil about it." "One morning I wake up, and I'm a corporal, and the next I'm a sergeant or a general. It's driving me nuts...
...Columbia undergraduate is strongly perturbed. A cup of coffee in one hand and a library in his wake, he trundles dismally along the appointed orbit. And as he passes, the foul Eumenides tweak his dank locks. When he falls by the wayside they smear his gaunt frame with thick and amylaceous sepulchral ointments, gleefully telling his ribs as they ply their flendish task. Let us shudder and shamble onwards...
...Matthews left school to become a chorus girl in the London edition of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, has since appeared mostly in Charles B. Cochran productions. She visited the U.S. in the chorus of two Chariot Revues, appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities, starred in Wake Up and Dream. Her present husband is John Robert Hale-Monro ("Sonnie Hale"). They were married in 1931 after Sonnie Hale was divorced by Actress Evelyn Laye and Jessie Matthews was divorced by her first husband, Actor Henry Lytton Jr., following her voluntary testimony of her own adultery with Actor...
...possible for these less gifted or less ambitious students to continue contact with, their tutors, and through them with their Houses, and to receive as much attention as they might require--without taking up too much of the tutor's time. If, as sometimes happens, one of them should wake up and decide that he wanted something more than the bare minimum of what Harvard has to offer him, it ought to be possible for such a student to change his rating to that of a "tutorial man." Again it would be advisable to preserve as much flexibility as possible...