Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Felicien Rops (1833-98) and showing a girl in the sodden stage of an absinthe drunk (see cut, p. 21). Most absinthe neophytes begin by taking too much, enjoy a brief stage of exhilaration (often quarrelsome), then lapse into an absinthe stupor, followed by sleep. They wake up with a terrific pounding headache which lasts all the next day and is punctuated by fits of vomiting...
...stay with his family, a soft berth offering large scope for his talents. But when they finally find him out for what he is, he realizes that the game is up. He wangles an invitation from a chance acquaintance, departs with Lizzie, leaves unhappiness and tragedy in his wake...
...included in the portfolio of colonies is the Canal Zone (governed by the Army for military reasons), Guam, American Samoa, Wake and Midway Islands (governed by the Navy for reasons of strategy), nor the Philippines whose freedom is around a ten-year corner...
Sooner or later all heat waves must end. Late last week showers and clouds changed the weather. The heat wave rolled out of the Midwest and off the front pages but in its fiery wake lay death, dearth and desolation...
...homesteads. Only untoward event was a parade in Christiansted, staged by the local Democratic Club. where marchers carried banners demanding the removal of Governor Pearson, the appointment of a Democrat. His fondness unshaken, the President bade the Governor a cordial farewell. The Houston, with the two destroyers in her wake, streaked away once more over the blue waters, cutting a long diagonal across the Caribbean, toward Cartagena, Colombia...