Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamburg cafes looked up from their beer and ice cream as big blue busses filled with policemen careened by, buglers blowing a fanfare in place of a siren. Weary waiters opined that there was trouble in Altona. Five minutes later armored cars roared past in the riot cars' wake. Waiters, no longer weary, knew there was real trouble in Altona...
...down through industry and private corporations to Governor Roosevelt's famed "forgotten man." Both relief theories are based on the same assumption, namely, that debtors are to be tided over until prices rise to restore solvency. Without that price rise either theory would obviously fail, leaving in its wake a widespread form of government ownership...
...spontaneity. It is a compendium of old stories about the War and Enoch Arden. Clive Brook and Claudette Colbert act it as though they were in a trance and if you enter the theatre in the middle of the picture you half expect them to wake up suddenly and discover that they have just been dreaming. Nothing of the sort occurs. Clive Brook is a British officer. Presently he is reported dead. Miss Colbert is his wife. She bears him a son and, thinking she is a widow, is on the point of marrying a French surgeon (Charles Boyer) when...
John Livingston Lowes: The beloved scholar, who, among many researches, traced in an oblivious sea the wake of the Ancient Mariner...
...Wake Forest College LL.D...