Word: awoken
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Several jailbirds were awoken abruptly yesterday at 9 a.m. when PBH volunteers acting as jailors stormed their rooms, friends of the arrested students reported. At least one member of the PBH posse surprised himself when he "got his man" in a member of the opposite sex's room...
...mate with astonishment. What innovation. But where's Auntie Em? This is a dorm room at the Harvard Business School--surely a case of art imitating life imitating art, if ever there was one Ernest Flatford, B-School student with a taste for sentiment and bad prose, is rudely awoken by colleague and rival (and, inexplicably, object of his desire), the ghastly Prudence Tomb (Martha Coffin). Rabid purveyor of the go rich-quick-after-B-School American Drench, Martha, ever the killjoy, nags at Ernest to do his reading between intermittent snatches of an idiotic love duet. Just...
...country form which the cries of the Suffragettes have passed away, their work done and accepted, only a small infrequent voice over is heard ruing the day that the franchise was slipped into the untrustworthy hands of women. The Nineteenth Amendment sleeps in peace, awoken only occasionally by the clamor of a daring article in its honor appearing in the Sunday supplements of the New York papers. But in Spain it is yet a new and exciting thing. Just a year ago women suffrage was proclaimed, and today its proclaimed are aghast at the results; the hand that...