Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving two girls a lift in a straight-eight roadster, so Frank will look just a thought uncomfortable in the polo coat and pleated trousers of contemporary collegiate fashion. While he flourished mightily in an era when undergraduates sat along the campus fence and sang "Integer Vitae" and "Freshmen, Wake" of an evening, he could never be quite at home in the Dizzy Club while on a Manhattan week end, or participating in a perfumed and platinum Whitney Avenue cocktail party. A more ingenuous age was Frank's setting, and for him platinum blondes could never spell romance or contract...
Laboring far in the wake of more prominent political satires and trailing leagues behind its pennant-winning cousins comes the current offering at the University, "The Phantom President," and it comes not as a stirring triumph in moving picture production but rather as the last-feeble whisper of a once glorious theatrical type. But it has George M. Cohan. The presence of this dean of Broadway's white lights cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little...
...idea--me and Lowell--good men--got ideas--open door--funny knob--round and round--quiet now--foot's asleep--don't wake...
...must differ with Dr. Holcombe on this point; I believe that the youth of the country is more sensitive to the present slump than are the older people, who appear to sit dazedly by and trust in God and Mr. Roosevelt to wake them up. Youth has looked upon the situation and has divided into two camps--one which has thought the whole thing out and has turned to him who offers the most plausible plan for relief; and another which bleats of its magnificent open-mindedness and blindly rushes into Socialism...
...respective desirability of Harvard's football opponents rests upon a mutuality of athletic ideals and programs, Pennsylvania State College should find its name near the top of the list. In the middle of a period of unparalleled overemphasis on intercollegiate football that swamped intramural sports in its wake, both colleges perceived athletic values sensibly, and courageously reorganized to meet their principles...