Word: woke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could Marjorie Kurtz write a song hit? Simple, says Marjorie: "I dreamed it." One night last June, curly-headed Marjorie had her dream, woke up early the next morning to jot down some lyricj about up-in-the-sky-sky-sky, see-the-snow-fly-fly-fly. She hummed an almost profes< sionally simple melody, and her aunt, a onetime supper-club singer named Sandra Kent, wrote it out. Marjorie's father, an amateur violinist, thought the lyrics were too repetitious, but Aunt Sandra dis« agreed. She landed Marjorie's song on g CBS-TV program last...
...make so much money that he began to pay for the articles he reprinted, the other editors woke up to the Digest's size. They started to talk about refusing reprint privileges. Wallace soothed the grumbling magazines by agreeing to pay fat annual fees for reprint rights, in addition to paying for each article used. Imitators of the Digest sprang up by the score-many to wither after one season...
...later years things calmed down a bit, though the Theatre and its non-Harvard patrons were constantly plagued by club and organization initiation stunts. During the late 20's the UT played one silent picture featuring an alarm clock which woke up the hero in several crucial scenes. During an afternoon showing just as the camera focused on the clock, the theatre was suddenly split by a tremendous shrieking of alarm clocks. "The next morning our ushers alone picked up 25 or so clocks which the students left behind them," Sumner recalls...
Duval described how the burglars woke him up late at night last May. He followed them from Leverett G-entry to H-entry, where he got a good look at them but didn't try to stop them...
Down by the Bough. In Attleboro, Mass., Alonzo Benson dreamed that he was lying head down in three feet of water, woke up to find himself hanging by his knees from a tree in the backyard...