Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nashville, Tenn., seven Negresses started to hold a wake over a corpse. They knelt simultaneously to pray. The floor gave way; all seven and the corpse fell to the ground. They sued owners of the house for $3,000 apiece, Florence Young for loss of a gold tooth when her face was stepped on, Roberta Birdsong for injuries from sitting on a rusty nail, the others injuries to themselves and the corpse...
...national semi-official organization the Red Cross supplies human relief in the wake of any disaster of nature such as fire, flood, cyclone or earthquake. Because a drought is a natural disaster, it was ready to relieve its victims. But because overproduction was a man-made calamity and not an Act of God, it was not willing to help the city jobless out of an economic predicament no less severe than that of drought sufferers...
...Simultaneously the third wave of the revolution was sweeping across President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena's famed Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...
Caroline went off to London in a pet and spent the night with a man she despised. When she got home to find her little daughter down with pneumonia, she thought it was a punishment. Then Peter discreetly went away. Caroline thought her heart was breaking, but perhaps would wake up some morning and find she was glad things had fallen out as they...