Word: woke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiery temper, had concealed all knowledge of the theft. He had, two weeks previously, he said, been accosted on the street by an extraordinarily goodlooking young woman. She had invited him to dine and presumably to wine. He accepted the invitation. . . . Next morning, the valet continued, he woke up with a bad headache to discover that the correspondence, including his own, was gone. His letters were subsequently returned, except one which contained the names of people who had visited the Prince at his Orne Villa...
...mules wrenched along in makeshift harness. Automobiles of every make, rusty and knocking, shiny and squeaky, dodged and swerved along the crowded track. Derby hats, caps, fedoras and sombreros rolled by. Slick city men talked loudly. Rough desert men looked grim. The Bad Lands that the Indians call Malapai woke up as they had not awakened since Jim Butler's mule kicked open the silver vein that made Tonopah in 1900. They rattled and rumbled for 40 miles, to Weepah, a treeless place on the "bench" (foothill plateau) of the Silver Peak range...
...three came home early from a party to the place in which they had their respective apartments, one of those remodeled houses west of Fifth Avenue-a restaurant on the first floor, a dressmaking place on the second. The two girls lived across the hall from Actor Daly. Smoke woke them up in the night. The stairs were on fire...
...even doubt the usefulness of the elective system, as he carried it out. But no one can have any doubt whatever of the salutary effect of his ideas and his forceful presentation of these ideas on American colleges as a whole and American life as a whole. He woke the college classrooms up to an interest in what was going on outside of them and he at the same time led the outside world to see and value what college study really could...
...delegation of peasant women, laden with wreaths for their Queen, had fallen asleep in the warm stuffy waiting-room, and, as no one woke them up, they snored on. Marie of Rumania was home...