Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captains Courageous (Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy); Wake Up and Live (Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Jack Haley, Alice Faye); The Prince and, the Pauper (Billy & Bobby Mauch, Errol Flynn); A Star Is Born (Janet Gaynor, Fredric March); Make Way For Tomorrow (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi); Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris); Under the Red Robe (Raymond Massey, Annabella, Conrad Veidt...
...Arabella had been a bigger or a faster ship, Standish would doubtless have been pulled in by its suction, smashed by the propellers. As it was, he took quite a buffeting before he popped up in the Arabella's wake. At first he was not at all alarmed, simply embarrassed. He shouted, but nobody heard him. But he knew that on such a small ship his absence would soon be noted; the water was pleasantly lukewarm; he was a strong swimmer and could float indefinitely; he knew there were no sharks in those latitudes. "Just the same...
...Wagner Act requires only bargaining, not written contracts. But S. W. O. C.'s Chairman Philip Murray, determined to win all he could while Recovery and Rearmament were booming steel production to alltime highs, cried last fortnight: "I tell you a strike will inevitably trail in the wake of this maddening policy...
...rain dripped all night from miles of waterproofed flags and bunting. Last revelers from the gayest nightspots had not reached home before operators in the telephone exchanges began plugging in wake-up calls to subscribers. Ordinarily there are about 800 such calls in London, this morning there were 10,000. It was barely light and still drizzling when the long streams of humanity began flowing in toward the heart of the spectacle, on foot, in motors, on the subways...
...heart disease in Washington (TIME, May 3), was last week laid to rest in his native Chattanooga. His funeral was attended by a host of friends from Washington and all over Tennessee. The assemblage was not only sorrowful. It had some of the exhilaration of an oldtime Irish wake, and the chief intoxicant was politics. In hotel lobbies, even in the church, mourners peered at their fellows and whispered in little groups. "Who is So-&-So backing?" "There's Such-&-Such-what does he want?" The Chattanooga News with unwonted journalistic frankness said that the city was the scene...