Word: wade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wesley was small, dictatorial, sure of himself (Wade calls him a "hard, pertinacious little paragon") but he must have had a certain charm. Literary Tycoon Sam Johnson who knew and liked him once complained: "I hate to meet John Wesley. The dog enchants you with his conversation, and then breaks away to go and visit some old woman. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk...
...expedition to Ireland and who (according to the playwright) could have taken England from Elizabeth had he not been given to understand that she would share the realm with him, an error in judgment which costs him his head. The long, windy dialog which he is forced to wade through-resembling the weighty prose of a Bulwer-Lytton historical drama-is spoken in an unconvincing approximation of what the playwright imagines to be Elizabethan speech. The play can have little suspense, for bright theatregoers are aware of the facts in the story, and few startling liberties are taken with...
When the fish are running, the "brownies" wade into the shallows, bash the fish with their paws. When the churned water becomes calm they stick their snoots in the water, extract their fish...
...clock tonight in Sanders Theatre members of the University and the public will have an opportunity to hear a declamation of ten selections from ancient and modern poetry and prose by ten speakers competing for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prizes for Elocution...
...winner, selected by the judges, Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus; G. R. Agassiz '84; and Leverett Saltonstall '14, will receive the Lee Wade prize of $50. The second most successful contestant will receive the Boylston prize of $50, and those placing third and fourth will be awarded additional Boylston prizes of $30. W. R. Harper '30 will preside...