Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Miss Williams: "Perhaps my father's death may awaken the Nationalist party to the dangers of Communism. . . . I am confident that the Conservative group will work out the salvation of that country in a few years...
...rare thing when unsuitability and failure are judged in advance, and it would appear doubtful if any of those who have found themselves unsuited to a college education ever suspected that they would so find it until they had learned by experience. Obviously Dr. Faunce seeks to awaken saving suspicions in the minds of such as have at the outset little chance of finding value in higher education, but it is a question whether, even if awakened, the suspicions would be taken seriously. Only a few of pre-college age, or older for that matter, are able to speak freely...
...might lie in the direction and training of the plays direction which has been, of late, merely capable. At any rate there is something vitally wrong, and an attempt to analyze that wrong is not out of place. Destructive criticism, while not offering any improvements, can at least awaken the Dramatic Club to the possibilities which are within its grasp. Whatever or whoever is to blame for the decline of this body, there is no doubt but that it needs renovation. If the students of the University are culpable, one can merely comment on the degradation of the drama which...
...said Dr. Grenfell, 'I was staying in Cambridge only a short while and returning from a dance, was trying to find the club where I was spending the night. I thought that I had found the right house and, was stealthily entering a window so as not to awaken the people who were already in bed, when the lights suddenly went on and a nervous man with a revolver ordered me to 'Put them...
...What more agreeable than the enthusiasm a woman knows how to awaken in a man? What more charming, thrilling than the first kiss; what brings a more profound sigh of relief than the last...