Word: waken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, one day last week, Dr. Martin R. Hoffman, psychiatrist from a nearby hospital, announced: "She will wake up tomorrow, because in repeated conversations all around her she has constantly heard it said it is the Lord's will that she waken on that day [the seventh]. If I had been able to convince her today that it was the day, or that we were alone in the room, she probably would have awakened immediately...
...morning, as was my daily custom, I went to the Palace and into the sleeping quarters of the President at 5:15 to waken him for his daily exercise, massage and bath; and told him that Armando Andre had been shot a few hours before by "sawed-off" shot guns, through an open window in a house opposite his home, as he was trying to get his latch-key into the keyhole, which was jambed full of cut-off tooth picks. Machado exclaimed "No! That can't be true! It is not possible! Did you see it?" I replied...
Outwardly the new number of the super-editorial page, edited by the most important literary trust outside of the Book of the Month Club Board, presents nothing to waken the suspicions of its devotes. But the headlines (or whatever they are called) will give away the bad news that the editing quintet, in which Ernest Boyd represented the "unknown," has passed on much of its editorial space to complete "nobodies" in the literary world, obscure amateurs and pot-boiled professionals. It was the hope of almost every original Spectator subscriber that he would receive a short-and-easy-to-read...
That when asleep he requires a constant companion to waken him lest, talking in a nightmare, he reveal some of the shady transactions of his past...
Essex's friend, Southampton, anxious to waken him to his peril and to win the support of the people, turned to a certain new dramatist all London was acclaiming. The crowds storming the Globe to see "Henry IV" had already applauded the wish that Essex might return from Ireland "bring rebellion broached on his sword:" only Shakespeare could waken their enthusiasm again, and show Essex his danger and his opportunity. And so the "History of King Richard II" was put on the boards on the Bankside, with a double moral for its time. The audience beheld the tyranny of Hereford...