Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Neff, like you got me, I would wake up in the mornin' and set you free...
...month aboard the U. S. S. Houston from Annapolis to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, through the Panama Canal to Hawaii and back to Portland, Ore.; traveled across the continent with the cheers of multitudes in his ears and the news of drought-slaking rains in his wake; relaxed as the country squire at Hyde Park; toured the Tennessee Valley; sunned himself in the pool at Warm Springs. And during 1934, he spoke 23 times over the radio, more than any previous President in any previous year. But in the same time his wife managed to make five more...
...drink, and be merry-that's what Harry ordered. Harry was a sponger . . . and no good, but he had a fine heart." Services opened with the singing of "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." Vagrants got drunk, made speeches, piously intoned the Hobo's Prayer. At wake's end, quarters were distributed to every guest. Next day Host Harry Batter was cremated, and his ashes scattered over the graves of the Haymarket rioters...
Meanwhile Death still dogged the Morro Castle's wake. In Shrewsbury, Mass. last week died Ethel I. Knight Celatka, 21, of a weakened heart supposedly caused by 14 hours' exposure in the water after she and her sister jumped from the burning Ward liner last September and swam ashore each with a child in tow. (Total deaths: 128.) Off Asbury Park last week, wreckers salvaging the vessel reported that the charred hulk was "wrinkling," the whole ship was cracking...
Said the crisp British voice of Professor May: "Wake...