Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combination of Hollywood, the Grimm Brothers, and the sad, searching fantasy of universal childhood, it is an authentic masterpiece, to be shown in theatres and beloved by new generations long after the current crop of Hollywood stars, writers and directors are sleeping where no Prince's kiss can wake them...
...brutal, the revolutionists fanatical, the peasants stupid, the intellectuals timidly ineffectual or suicidally brave. Writing with deceptive simplicity, sometimes introducing real people like Andre Malraux, Nogales occasionally hits a strange note of lyric violence: "In the morning light a bomb thrown from an airplane leaves behind a pretty, luminous wake. The tuning fork of space vibrates on being struck...
...wake of the fall sport season arises the anomaly of the system of letter and numeral awards in cross country. Although ten men may run in the annual Yale races, only the first five Crimson jerseys to finish are rewarded for their effort, because only the first five contribute directly to their team's score...
...trouble with most publishers Is that they think they have the public by the throat. If they don't wake up, they will find themselves being subjected to government regulation...
...Wrecker Rockwood's men took, among other things, a 15-ton derrick, two electric hoists worth $4,500. Mr. Rockwood, explained Prosecutor Thompson, had disposed of his huge swag chiefly to local junk yards by means of forged bills of sale. Most puzzling problem he left in his wake was a big overhead electric crane, which he had sold to a firm of contractors for $250 and which they had paid $350 to move from the Diener plant, where there was no building in which to reinstall it last week...