Word: woke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many another U. S. business, Spiegel, May, Stern woke up in 1932 with a bad hangover. From 1929 to 1932 it lost $2,575,000. Unlike its big neighbor, Montgomery Ward, it was shackled to no failing chain stores, but it was as badly off as Ward's in its ineffective merchandising methods. Spiegel's needed brains. For $100,000 a year, Ward's acquired this necessity from U. S. Gypsum Co. in the person of Sewell Lee Avery. Spiegel's found it in the family. Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., ten years out of Dartmouth...
...case of vitiligo, a harmless but mysterious skin condition which an occasional Negro develops. "About 30 years ago I had a little pimple on my forehead," said Will White. "I went to the barber shop and got some medicine to get rid of the pimple. Next morning I woke up with pimples all over my face. The medicine wasn't no good. The pimples kept coming and going. When they'd go they'd leave a white spot." The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed by Will White after his bath...
...Manhattan, Bert Lascoff, 20, explained to police that he woke from "a bad dream" to find that he had chased his father out of their bedroom, pursued him through five rooms, stabbed him eight times with a bread knife...
...fetched but equally fabulous was his campaigning last week when with the same urge that drove Alf Landon to invade New Deal California, the President took a swing through anti-New Deal New England. One fair autumn morning he woke up aboard his special train in Providence, and began greeting people: Mrs. Roosevelt who had arrived before him, Rhode Island's Governor Green and a fine figure of a man in a cutaway and topper...
...Beaumont, Tex. Trainer Lee Roberta of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus forgot to speak gently to Trilby, a one-eyed elephant, when awakening her. Trilby woke up irritably, grabbed him in her trunk, whacked him against a wall, stomped him to death. Next day circus officials reported that Trilby was in constant tears...