Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Charley Whiteside's Varsity crow stands a pretty good chance of leaving both Pennsylvania and Navy in its wake in the race in Philadelphia next Saturday...
...Tribune, is everything that his enemy is not: tall, handsome, scholarly, a Harvardman (1903), Unitarian, Elk, Rotarian and Republican. The Medford upper crust approves of him highly, but the mass of Rogue River small orchardists and laborers regard him as a silk stocking. With an editorial entitled "TIME TO WAKE UP," Editor Ruhl called upon his readers to "prevent armed rebellion and bloodshed under Llewellyn A. Banks-the John Brown of the Depression." The climax occurred when the courthouse was sacked and ballot boxes stolen. Constable Prescott was sent to Banks's house to arrest him. Banks...
Three Crimson crews showed a clean and rippling wake to a like number of M.I.T. eights during informal races on the River Saturday afternoon, while at the same time the Engineer first 150-pounders out-stroked the Harvard 150's to cross the finish line of the Henley in 7.16 and eight seconds ahead of their rivals...
...Robert Gallagher sat in the back seat of their car while Mr. Gallagher's sister drove them from Boston to New York. Near New Haven, Mrs. Gallagher was pleased to see her husband relax, close his eyes, decided not to wake him. Not until she reached New York (73 mi.) did she realize that he was dead...
...wife (able Rose McClendon of Porgy) increase, as Henry's sister-in-law becomes increasingly acidic on the subject of Henry's laziness, not a few spectators may be reminded of those unpretentious little Irish genre comedies of the Abbey Players. The parallelism goes further in the wake scene, after Henry is supposed to have gone off despondently and drowned himself. Needless to say, Henry reappears, alive and happy in a store-bought suit and brown derby, his "projeck" a success. First-week audiences seemed immensely pleased when Henry outwitted his onetime white employer, sold...