Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unimpressed by the new importance of the Beaver Man, enemy of floods, angry rivers burst dykes, fell upon Arkansas and Missouri farmers. Hundreds scurried to the safety of high hills, driving kin and kine before them. In their wake came the flood waters of the White River, deluging 40,000 acres in Arkansas. Missourians fought the rising St. Francis, already claiming 25,000 acres, with the crest yet to come. Mississippi valley dwellers remembered 1927, wondered if the Beaver Man would help...
Francis Pendleton Gaines, president of Wake Forest College Litt...
...Passed through second reading the Equal Franchise ("Votes for Flappers") Bill, after a stormy session during which Earl Balfour warned: "If you do not pass this bill you will wake up to find . . . that the House of Lords has been abolished...
...spectral horrors. Dreary and revengeful, General Lowenskold's ghost hovered near the priceless ring that had been stolen from his tomb. The unhappy thief suffered?his barns burned down, his wife was drowned?but he dared not confess looting a grave, mortal offense. In time, the jewel of ill wake passed with its spectral guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold. Far from treating his heirs more kindly, the ghostly grandsire bedevilled the son of the house with a wasting disease. But for a lovelorn governess the jewel would never have been found, glinting...
Outpaced by a brilliant Columbia light-weight crew from the opening gun of the American Henley race for 150-pound boats on the Schuylkill River last Saturday, the Crimson oarsmen lagged behind in the wake to fight for secondary position with Penn, Princeton, and Yale. Pulling sluggishly in the final quarter-mile, the Harvard entry took the wash of the three other shells and brought up the rear a length behind the Eli eight...