Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerts, personally conducted, was the record-breaking sensation of musical London. At last he was free to return to Dresden, to his "Lina." He spent all day receiving friends in farewell visits, and talked only of his journey, his homecoming. On the morning of his departure he did not wake...
Walter Hagen always smiles for the camera. When he talks to his caddy, when he sits down to lunch, when he strolls in the wake of his drives, his face relaxes into large curves of good nature. Thus he looked when he arrived, half an hour late, at the St. George's Hill Club, Weybridge, England, to play the second half of a match with Abe Mitchell for a prize of ?500.* He was at that point four holes behind...
...Wake Forest College...
...everyone knows, the eagle is a bird more remarkable for vigor than sagacity. This was again proved when the little steamer Sulanierco recently sailed away from Porto Pico followed by a huge black and white eagle soaring high above her wake, disdaining to swoop for scraps thrown by the cook unless they consisted solely of meat...
Fighting on, the Lunghai railway forced them to make a long detour adding a month to the trip. Later, in Shens! Province they found themselves in the wake of the defeated provincial army which had looted the villages along the road and largely wrecked the inns. The country was much upset and bands of robbers were frequent. Happily they had but one encounter with bandits. On the North west trade route they discovered some hitherto unreported rock grottoes of the sixth century, A. D. Enough evidence was there found to establish the date, but the sculpture had been badly destroyed...