Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell's unselfconscious heroes was Mr. Holton, self-taught authority on mass insanity, who went crazy. Mr. Holton's wife picked up every crazy fad that came along. One night she woke him up and said "Knock, knock." "I am too old for that sort of by-play," Mr. Holton complained to Mitchell. "I do not wear long pants just because they become me." But Author Mitchell hits the authentic Lardner note most strongly in The Pickle Works, a brilliant sketch...
...closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York's Senator Wagner had the floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Although Alben Barkley has cast a good Southern vote against anti-lynching bills in the past, he was caught in a legislative trap. To prevent a new filibuster from wrecking the closing hours...
...That woke these echoes in that earlier...
...need not worry. In fact, you're very lucky to have escaped unscathed. I once went to a party where they served thirty-two cases of champagne (not quite all to me) and I woke up at four-thirty in the morning still dancing with the hostess. But I was an usher that time, and someone had to start her off. The other boys figured I could stand it, I guess, and I guess I could in the good old days. I am therefore sympathetically, Your UNCLE SMUGLY...
...that had been careening down the street, arrested bloody Ben Ryser and irate wife. Said Mr. Ryser in court: "I tried to get her to leave a beer garden. I had to coax her away with a bottle of whiskey. She fell asleep in the car, but woke up near home and asked for a drink. ... I was trying to get home but I was relieved when the police came alongside. She had picked up a piece of glass and was stabbing at me with...