Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven miles down the beach Sir Malcolm turned and came back, fighting a wind that pushed his wake of black smoke away from the foam at the water's edge. His average time for the two trips was 253.968 m.p.h., a new record. Pleased, Speedster Campbell held out his arm to show reporters that it was not shaking, said he planned to make another record the next day. Two days later he made records for five kilometers, five miles and ten kilometers...
...horizon from California in the long swell of the Pacific rocked the clock-faced fighting tops of nine battleships of the Battle Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington and the Saratoga...
...other noisemakers. Tuesday morning youths and maids who had been out most of the night before at the ball of Proteus (Old Man of the Sea) & Queen (Marjorie Stair), got up early, piled into dozens of trucks padded with hay, drove through the streets of New Orleans in the wake of the parade of Rex, King of Carnival (Coco-Colaman A. B. Freeman). Crowds packed from building line to car tracks threw confetti, cot ton balls, grabbed at shoes dangling over the sides of the trucks. Meanwhile, up from the river came another parade, headed by Joseph O. Misshore, Negro...
...Washington the Austrian Minister, Edgar L. G. Prochnik, last week presented President Hoover with an equestrian statuet of Washington made of Austrian china. The Smithsonian Institution was preparing an exhibit of Washingtoniana. Rehearsals for Wake field, a folk masque by Percy MacKaye to be presented at Constitution Hall Feb. 21, were under way. The manuscript of one of Washington's Thanksgiving proclamations was displayed in the Library of Congress...
Certain she would say no naughty things, a young lady last week let an indiscreet young man demonstrate his hypnotic powers on her at a "psychology" party of Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) students. When the proud young Svengali suggested "Wake up!" she failed to respond. Not until 45 min. later did she rouse herself naturally. The incident frightened the experimental psychologists so thoroughly that Adelene Bowie, dean of women, noticed the commotion. Forthwith she strictly forbade any more such pranks...