Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty-eight hours before ascending he ceased to take solid food. Moreover he has trained himself to sleep for ten minutes every hour on his stool. Lest he topple off while asleep, his thumbs are thrust tightly into holes bored in the eight-inches-in-diameter wooden seat...
...Some method," he said, "ought to be found for arousing this large group who are 'asleep in Jesus.' . . . There is not much consolation in taking in a large number of new members at the front door and letting out an equal number at the back door." Let there be a campaign against indifference "without the thought of raising money...
Creeps in half wanton, half asleep...
...Pennsylvania mumbled election returns from his state, said he hoped to reach Georgia by dawn. A correspondent in the press gallery whispered: "Poor fellow, Reed would stand on his head on the Senate floor if Bill Vare asked him. . . ." The Senate restaurant was out of coffee. Mr. Heflin was asleep on a lounge; a thoughtful jester had covered him with a red drapery...
...deficiency appropriation bill (see below). Once it seemed likely that a compromise would be reached. Senator Reed of Missouri offered to displace his investigating resolution to allow quick passage of the deficiency bill, the alien property bill and the public buildings bill. Thereupon, Mr. Blease wandered in, half-asleep. He heard the words "unanimous consent." He shouted: "I object." Nobody was going to pull any wool over his eyes...