Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME MARCHES ON AND THE LEGION OF APPRECIATIVE RADIO LISTENERS FOLLOW IN ITS WAKE PERIOD MY HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS FOR THE MOST PLEASANT THIRTY MINUTES OF THE WEEK...
Humper? G. O. P. strategists including Secretaries Mills and Hurley and Postmaster General Brown, trooped to the White House in the wake of the Maine returns. They spent long gloomy hours with the President. He was told that he must revamp his personal campaign, get out to the country, make speeches, meet the Roosevelt challenge. He was urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have...
Followed a four-day hiatus, due to the death of the Mayor's younger brother George. The Mayor was put to bed with a case of "nervous exhaustion." He could not attend the wake. For George Walker's funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral most of Tammany Hall turned out as mourners. The ceremony and crowds were more a tribute to the Mayor than to his unknown brother. At the interment in Long Island City the Mayor looked wan and hollow-cheeked...
...Scotch grouse shipped by express from Balmoral Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors, leaving boggy ground and a heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled an expert: "The worst morning of the Twelfth known...
...minutes later cavalry and infantry, to the number of 1,000 men began moving into Washington for an encounter with the B. E. F. for which the War Department had long been preparing.* In their wake came five small tanks, a fleet of trucks. Bayonets glittered in the sun, equipment clanked over the pavement as the force marched slowly up Pennsylvania Avenue. Reaching the "affected area" (4:45 p. m.) troopers rode straight into the hooting, booing ranks of the B. E. F. Veterans scrambled out of the way of swinging sabres, trampling hoofs. Steel-helmeted infantrymen with drawn revolvers...