Word: waved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the surf put a gasoline launch, the Thelma, with a fishing party aboard. The beach crowd watched her careen on the breakers, herded to the water's edge when the boat capsized. Good swimmers ran splashing out, split the first wave with a dive, plowed off to the rescue...
...Germany sweltered in a heat wave. Many prostrations were reported. Water riots in Berlin's suburbs were narrowly averted by the happy arrival of the water...
...have to do 'is take a glance at this title, imagine a handsome cinema actor in a red uniform "getting his man," picture the close-up of a lovely lady whose wave has survived even a train wreck. There you have it, no worse, no better, than usual. In fact, quite the same...
...heat wave which waved and stayed in the eastern states of United America, waved its way across the Atlantic to stay with the disunited States of Europe. With the rise of the thermometer, vitality sank and with the increase of humidity, ambition faltered. An unnamed U. S. newspaper correspondent with more imagination than energy was locomoted about Europe. From the shade of his conveyance (it might have been from the window of his hotel or, again, a hyper-metropical vision from the U. S.), he lazily and laconically wrote to The New York World "on the general state of everything...
...Heming in the same cast; to hear ovations and the curtain speeches-all these things are to find concentrated the talent and devotion of distinguished lifetimes, giving homage to an ideal and receiving it in kind. It mattered not last week that Manhattan suffered from the most persistent heat wave of recent times. People gave up their roof gardens and their evening in the country to watch this brilliant assembly. John Drew, who shares with Mrs. Fiske the greatest honors of our Theatre, played through the whole week despite his advancing years, his failing sight-despite the temperature. The cheers...