Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woke you therein, and drew your breath...
...woke up this morning, the blues all 'round...
...Before Nazidom gagged the Fatherland's jokesmiths they used to hammer out an anecdote in which Adolf Hitler, dozing at the opera, woke up to mistake a fat, gorgeously dressed Lohengrin for Göring and shouted at him: "No, Hermann! That's going...
...Kansas City William F. Corliss spread a blanket on a wagonload of potatoes, lay down on the blanket to sleep. As he snored, Farmer Corliss sank lower & lower in his wagon. When he woke, he lifted his head from the wagon's bottom. All his potatoes had been niched from under the snoring nose of William F. Corliss...
...quagmire of inflation, get back to profitable work and pay. In 1924, as now. Dr. Schacht was president of the Reichsbank and he performed what to Germans seemed a miracle. When they went to bed, a dollar was worth 42,000,000,000,000 old German marks. When they woke up, a dollar was worth only four new marks. The purpose of the Young Loan, product of 1929's "New Era" school of thought, was that Germany's pledge to pay Reparations over 59 years should be turned into quick money by selling it to the public...