Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew tiptoe, whisper. Absent are the jovial capers, bawdy stories, practical jokes traditional on male-directed sets. Away from the camera Miss Arzner works in an elaborate office built for her at Columbia, goes home to a hillside where she sleeps beside a window so that the sunrise will wake her. Although her father ran a restaurant, she shows small interest in food, takes rough age for lunch. She has never married, goes out little, is now making Mother Carey's Chickens...
...Vagabond in his Attic after a day filled with bustle but productive of no visible results. How much of his college life has been precisely like today! Wake at three minutes to nine--too late for his first class--toss till quarter to ten when up and a hasty brushing of his teeth and a poor shave with four bad nicks to staunch with stypic pencil. To breakfast at Waldorf, and two hours to kill before the twelve o'clock. A dash into Widener and check the bibliographies on Fenimore Cooper. A dash to H.A.A.--tickets for Dartmouth game. Back...
...Wake up Harvard and cut out the clowning and talk about the most serious things in life, such as unemployment and taxation. Oh, no, Dear Harvard would not talk on that because the rank and file might then seek the 'truth...
Unlike most ventures of its kind, the Bishop Hill colony left many memorabilia in its wake. The original church, school, blacksmith shop, inn, town hall remain. Thanks to a tipsy Civil War veteran who turned to painting because it was less arduous than horseshoeing, a gallery of 93 oils, among them a stack of portraits of the men who built Bishop Hill was also left behind...
...Sewanna's wake trailed the destroyer Hopkins, for Secret Service and wireless men; the Presidential yacht Potomac, for secretaries, emergencies and fishing jaunts; the schooner Liberty, for newshawks. First day's run brought the President to Bucks Harbor, off South Brooksville, Me. Next noon he put in at Mount Desert Island's Seal Cove for a visit from Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, wife, son and three daughters. Dressed in old pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral...