Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Her Majesty's Government issued a circular declaring that "the word 'Dutch' must be replaced by 'Netherland' to remove the possibility of disadvantageous confusion." Ever alert for her trading subjects' welfare, Queen Wilhelmina was said to be personally behind this move to wake up Dutchmen to their boycott peril. That Adolf Hitler aspires to absorb the Netherlands Her Majesty firmly believes, has taken steps accordingly. She permits Dutch Communists to jeer at her when she opens Parliament but has outlawed the Dutch Nazi Party...
...Boston: "Wake Up and Dream"--Russ Columbo, June Knight, and Roger Pryer are featured in this new musical film. These three take the parts of a vaudeville trio who act in the small towns. On the stage will appear Ranny Weeks and his orchestra, besides a stage show and several other acts...
...dozen garter snakes, 50 rabbits, 40 guinea pigs, 12 turtles and two or three dozen Louisiana bullfrogs. This supply is replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of oppossums, wodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, raccoons, crayfish and sheep. Each winter the farmers of Wake-field and Reading, donate a hog for the study of diseases of swill-fed swine...
...York Harbor. They never saw it, for suddenly a cloud of smoke began to pour from the library. Some seamen were slopping buckets of water on a blaze. They told Miss Cullen and her friends: "Don't worry! It will be put out easy." Miss Cullen ran down to wake up her roommate and get a coat...
...industrial client. In 1924 he became a very active partner in Lehman Brothers, and has since been Jewel's board chairman and a mighty hunter of mountain goats. Several years before that, he picked another onetime Navy officer, Commander Maurice H. Karker, to follow in his wake. President Karker paid off the $36.75 accumulations on the preferred stock, put the common stock on a dividend basis where it has been ever since...