Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reno, Okla., last week, she substituted for him when Governor Johnston and a welcoming party boarded the Smith Special at 8 a. m. "My father was up very late preparing for his speech tonight," she said. "I know you will excuse him. We thought it best not to wake him early...
Wadsworth House--Where you go when a quiz makes you wake up with a sore throat...
...school. Naïvely Judy demanded Martin's championship versus parents-which is all very well till he falls in love with her. He thereupon escapes to Africa; she and her brood, un-championed, lapse into their hectic scattered existence at smart European hotels, in the feverish wake of this parent or that...
...princes, watched hired captains of mercenaries scheming to prolong their lucrative warfare, watched Ludovico break the unwritten rule of the game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected the Friar of charlatanism, perhaps because he tried to rationalize the colorful sermons that so inspired...
...Please wake up! That...