Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wake up! --"The Thresher", Rice Institute, Houston, Texas...
...British soldiers and marines now en route to China are being sent merely as policemen. . . . But this is a distinction which may not be clear to Chinese minds. . We fear that the British public may go to bed one night with its soldiers acting as policemen in China, and wake up next morning to find them acting as soldiers...
...Bristol, England, Mrs. Alice Shrive, 55, tradesman's wife, died again last week, thoroughly. Thirty years ago pallbearers carrying her body to a grave, stumbled, caused her to rouse and scold them roundly. Two years later, at her second wake, she sat up on the planks and scolded mourners for wailing. Thereafter she lived to have 31 operations. Neighbors were awed. Last week she died again, of cancer; and relatives, twice duped, cut two of her arteries...
...night call on the dying woman. He, 61, had for years been trying to reduce the numbers of such night calls. They were arduous; really, few people got sick without warning; this woman would be all right until morning; an excited, clamorous family. . . . Shortly after midnight of the wake, the son, mumbling now, arose with purpose. Two men friends went with him out of the room. Forty-five minutes later they returned in silent righteousness. Wake talk grew warily discursive. Next morning Dr. Sante's body was found huddled in his office, ripped by 14 bullets...
...wake up in the middle of the night, fearful lest something terrible may be happening at our army posts"--Secretary of War Davis...