Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late yesterday afternoon the managing editor came into the Sanctum, where we were lying on the couch, busily doing nothing. "Are you asleep?" he asked...
...Teddy, coal-black boiler room cat at the Metropolitan Opera, last week momentarily disrupted a performance of Turandot. As the curtain rose for the third act, Signor Lauri-Volpi, my stage lover, was disclosed supposedly asleep on the steps of my palace. Teddy advanced toward him across the stage. Box-holders jerked their opera glasses into position. Others opened wide their eyes. There was tittering, laughter and one great solemn guffaw. Teddy prowled on. Lauri-Volpi rose to sing. The audience roared. I, offstage, about to go on, had hard work to keep the severe demeanor of the cold Chinese...
Peggy-Ann. Aided bv Gilbertian satire, Broadway slapstick, attractive dancers, the pepper of quick wisecracks, the charm of music, Peggy-Ann skipped right up to the head of the class in current musical diversions. Peggy-Ann (Helen Ford), a Cinderella in love with a penniless prince, falls asleep, dreams a crazy romance of department store and Cuban summer resort adventure. Helen Ford and Lester Cole sing the song hits, "In His Arms," "A Tree in the Park." Lulu McConnell, stylish stout comedienne, Charlestbns, croons, while pretty Betty Starbuck, as a clownish brat, keeps the audience a-roaring...
...delegation of peasant women, laden with wreaths for their Queen, had fallen asleep in the warm stuffy waiting-room, and, as no one woke them up, they snored on. Marie of Rumania was home...
Knute Rockne knew his men could beat Carnegie Tech. He packed his bag and went to Chicago to see the Army-Navy game. Into the fold on Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, stole a rowdydow team from Carnegie Tech, rocked Rockne's unbeaten Baby Buntings asleep...