Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During this autobiographical walk around Manhattan one ex-friend after another met Lawrence and offered him friendly help. To cap all, the girl showed him a flourishing bookshop, offered him the job of running it. Then they were mysteriously separated and Lawrence woke up in his room. When he called her apartment he found she had died the day before; but everything else had really happened...
Irish Wolfhounds spent most of their time asleep, although gapers who knew nothing of dogs kept standing round their benches to ogle them and exclaim when they woke up to gobble huge chunks of red meat. This breed, because of its appetite, is one of the most expensive in the world to maintain. When they were judged, King Lir of Ambleside made Mrs. Northrup Bellinger proud...
...that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with Me Now"; the verisimilitudinous fable of the aleful mother who staggered home with her child in one arm, a bag of meal in the other, threw the baby in the meal chest, the bag of meal in the cradle, woke to find the child dead, signed the pledge. And this, from 10,000 Temperance Anecdotes, justly entitled "A Curious Performance": "I once heard of a man who went to a tavern one evening and at midnight was discovered in a pigsty, cuddling a teakettle and singing...
...Lucia Brides." In the dawn after the Lewis speech Mr. & Mrs. Lewis woke up in their hotel, blinked at two Swedish maidens wearing crowns of lighted candles. Known as "Lucia Brides," they served coffee, an old Swedish custom observed in the dawn each Dec. 13. Sensing that a photographer had sneaked into the room to flashlight the prizeman & wife in bed, pajama-clad Mr. Lewis tusseled with the fellow, threw...
...lecturing before an incomprehensible hodgepodge projected on the screen ("the base camp"), explaining that his expedition has discovered and claimed "not ten, not 20, but 100,000 sq. mi. of brand new snow for the U. S." Also Fred Allen wondering if he whistled in his sleep: "When I woke up this morning there were four dogs in bed with me." Twelfth Night. Perhaps because the works of William Shakespeare are reputed ageless, most recent Shakespearean productions have been rigged out with modernistic settings, actors in mufti, sundry sensationalisms. In tune with her time, Jane Cowl has for her stage...