Word: wakening
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Outwardly the new number of the super-editorial page, edited by the most important literary trust outside of the Book of the Month Club Board, presents nothing to waken the suspicions of its devotes. But the headlines (or whatever they are called) will give away the bad news that the editing quintet, in which Ernest Boyd represented the "unknown," has passed on much of its editorial space to complete "nobodies" in the literary world, obscure amateurs and pot-boiled professionals. It was the hope of almost every original Spectator subscriber that he would receive a short-and-easy-to-read...
That when asleep he requires a constant companion to waken him lest, talking in a nightmare, he reveal some of the shady transactions of his past...
Essex's friend, Southampton, anxious to waken him to his peril and to win the support of the people, turned to a certain new dramatist all London was acclaiming. The crowds storming the Globe to see "Henry IV" had already applauded the wish that Essex might return from Ireland "bring rebellion broached on his sword:" only Shakespeare could waken their enthusiasm again, and show Essex his danger and his opportunity. And so the "History of King Richard II" was put on the boards on the Bankside, with a double moral for its time. The audience beheld the tyranny of Hereford...
...used to be the custom for the CRIMSON to print one or two editorials a year suggesting that the time be changed. Gradually a defeatist attitude crept in; crusading ardor lessened; masterly logic was presented with a yawn. No authorities seemed to be worried because it was absurd to waken the whole Yard so that thirty men could attend chapel one hour and three-quarters later. Even the individual Seniors each year passed from active objection to torpid acceptance, and so each new class has had the bell wished upon it. This protest, too, offered more in sorrow than...
...Greene never uses an alarm-clock. Instead she trains her companion to whisper, "I think perhaps you would like to waken now and get up." Once awake, Old Mrs. Greene feels too old, too weary, to arrange her own little walks, rests, games of "patience." She lets her companion arrange them. Dinner is the sacred hour; not then, not even afterward, can the companion express a personal opinion. Yet. the companion once breaks that rule. Although only 38, she says to Old Mrs. Greene, "I should like to die in the autumn." Startled, Mrs. Greene ponders the disparity of their...