Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through his solicitors in London, venerable Statesman David Lloyd George brayed a "very strong objection" to Trivial Fond Records, a book written by Sir Laurence Guillemard, oldtime British Treasury official. The passage deemed likeliest to have touched in Lloyd George the sensitive pride of all flesh: "He woke us all up at the Treasury, worried us to death, trampled on our most sacred feelings. We often sympathized with Mrs. Lloyd George, who is reported after exceptional provocation to have said that the first time she saw her husband he was in the hands of police and that she sometimes wished...
...more than $20,000. The bill expired in committee. St. Louis bankers thereupon asked and received from sedate Governor Stark written assurance that the next time Missouri bonds were put on the market they would be opened to competitive bidding. Lulled by the Governor's words, they woke up shocked and angry last fortnight when the State Board of Fund Commissioners blandly announced the sale to Baum, Bernheimer Co. of the last $3,000,000 worth of building bonds at a premium of $100,000. Governor Stark was vacationing in Alaska...
Usually somnolent, the House of Lords woke up to debate last week the act to broaden British grounds for divorce (TIME, June 14), with Lord Dawson of Penn, long physician to King George V and friend of Queen Mary, championing the bill. "When a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning," somewhat daringly observed Lord Dawson, while more than one bishop frowned. "Women are more sex-conscious than of old and demand a more sex-satisfying life. Why should marriage alone remain static...
...special trains from Washington with Government news, used express riders and carrier pigeons to speed his copy, foreshadowed modern press associations by cooperating with other newspapers for the good of all. When the "magnetic telegraph" of Samuel Finley Breese Morse became practical in 1844. Mr. Abell soon woke up to its value, put in a newswire...
Thirty years ago, when Istanbul was Constantinople, visitors to the city found it as overrun with dogs as Hamelin was with rats. Every small section had its band of ten to 25 mongrels-all sizes, shapes and colors-which woke to fighting fury when a dog from another section tried to trespass on its territory. They littered the narrow streets with their droppings, were eternally underfoot, made the night loud with their yapping. But it was part of the Turks' religion to be kind to animals, and the dogs had been there since Constantinople was Byzantium...