Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a great scraping of chairs and clearing of throats delegates to the League of Nations Disarmament Conference moved into their bleak hall in Geneva last week after seven months of recess. They and the world knew that they were mourners at a wake, that, with Germany absent and rampant on rearmament, the last chance of doing anything practical about engines of death went glimmering months ago. But they and the world expected a few fine fireworks before the corpse was laid finally to rest. That they...
...Book, By this point readers may begin to see why Author Mann, with all of Europe's complicated culture to embroider on, chose rather to go back to Asia to wake a slumbering legend. Originally attracted by the charm and the tantalizing brevity of this "natural narrative" of Jacob and his sons, Mann soon saw greater & greater depths in the story, an unsuspected universality in its theme. Readers will expect much more than a refurbished narrative of the tale of Joseph and they will not be disappointed. Author Mann has woven the threads of myth, history and fiction into...
Oldster George Bernard Shaw, 77 last birthday (July 26), is tidying up his long career. Like all great writers* who have finished their race, have time to rest on their oars, Author Shaw is looking back with pardonable pride at his still effervescent wake, planning to preserve the worthier bubbles in a definitive collected edition. Still an active playwright though no longer the champion sculler he was, Shaw in his time has rowed nearly every position in the boat. He has written novels, music criticism, book reviews, theatre criticism, essays, short stories, speeches, pamphlets (of tremendous length), even- though...
...boatings of the crew will remain unchanged from that which on two occasions left the other House shells floundering in its wake, with the exception of the replacement by Phillip S. Weld '36 of John C. Storey '35, who pulled at number three position. The oarsmen are as follows: cox, Wallace E. Howell '36; stroke. Thomas H. P. Whitney '35; 7, Richard Stackpole '35; 6, Arthur Reaue, Jr. '36; 5. William W. Pront '36; 4. Harry Marvin-Smith '36; 3, Weld; 2. Samuel D. Warren '36; and bow, Ambrose C. McCabe...
Contrary to many of the rumors in general circulation about the Yard and the banks of the River, the morning operator is called upon only rarely to wake those somnambulous souls who put little or no faith in the pertinacity or effectiveness of their alarm-clocks...