Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Christmas both were reading Gulliver's Travels. One day Father Mauch, who was paying them a visit, fell asleep on a sofa. They found two spools of thread, wound it around him so that when he woke up he found himself in the same predicament as Gulliver in Lilliput. Mrs. Mauch extricated her husband with a pair of scissors...
...This woke up that lion-hearted lawyer, President Jose Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube of the Basques. If a devout Catholic and a communist fanatic could be rolled into one, the result might approximate President de Aguirre. He keeps a tall ebony-&-gold crucifix on his desk but pounds this piece of furniture with voluble class-conscious vim remindful at times of Father Coughlin. As the offensive of General Mola was just getting under way, Basque de Aguirre went on the air with an impassioned broadcast...
...editor of the offending issue was a 160-lb. student named Dan Anderson of Salt Lake City. Before he knew it he was hauled out of his office by "Bus" Bergmann and told to take his hands out of his pockets. He declined and woke up in a University washroom. Editor Anderson had loyal "Bus" Bergmann arrested for assault and battery, at which point Heloise and Drake began to make headlines. "Bus" Bergmann, insisting that he was contending "for a lady's honor," was given a suspended sentence of 15 days...
...barroom clientele of Sydney, Australia, as a happy-go-lucky, well-set-up young Irishman from the New Guinea gold fields who had lately celebrated himself into a sanatorium, had not been on his uppers long before his abandoned claim was bought for $5,000. One morning he woke up to find that somewhere along his way he had paid out most of it for a 44-ft., 50-year-old harbor yacht called the Sirocco. Remorseful, but liking her low, raking lines, he decided to sail her 3,000 miles to New Guinea. All for it were three footloose...
When the Dionne Quintuplets clung to life 31 months ago in Callender, Ont. and the world outside woke up to their uniqueness, Photographer Fred Davis of the bustling Toronto Star suggested selling their pictures to newspapers and services to help meet the expense of keeping...