Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American it means a high life expose. The residents along the Post Roard stand on their porches, shivering in the November dawn, chatting and awaiting the Sears cortege. After it has passed, headed by the ambitious lady, they so back to bed. And by the time they have fallen asleep the parade is miles beyond. For sic transit gloria mundi, gloria pedes and gloria Eleanora...
...rangers fighting a forest fire in the Santiago Canyon region in California their messenger dog came crawling on his belly. His eyes were red from the smoke, his fur burned by shoots of fire. While rangers comforted him, he licked his burns, fell asleep, whimpering. This must not happen again. So District Ranger Bill Freer made him an asbestos coat, good protection. Asbestos, a mineral found notably in the Province of Quebec, does not decompose under even relatively high degrees of heat. Nor does it allow heat to pass through it easily. Another characteristic is its resistance to most acids...
...achieved in accents as intense and dim as the words of a child in a fever. It may be that the word "Bohemian" had taken on, when he first heard it, some quality not its own, a jangling note that suggested the picture, for why the painted traveler, asleep under the moon with her mandolin should be a "Bohemian" is hard to say. Her mandolin is quiet. All around her, upon the desert and upon her limbs, disposed in sleep, the moon bends its light, and a lion (come down from a hill colder and stonier than the desert) stands...
...rambling stage narrative, bits of daily life, dull except to the few who love inspired satire. Theatregoers who seek effortless entertainment are warned to avoid The Three Sisters. So consistently is the mood of restless boredom maintained on the stage that it will surely transmit itself to any half-asleep onlooker. To those who can emerge from the day's fracas of commercial activity with relish for intellectual adventure, The Three Sisters will prove one of the season's delights...
...water, pursued recondite subjects. With each drink, a more hysterical note crept into Joseph Carson's voice. Jealousy gnawed. To shake it off, he blurted bitter taunts, taunts so childish that Prof. Buermeyer brushed them easily aside until he was bored, then dropped his woozy head and fell asleep. Infuriated, Philosopher Carson shouted at him to sit up and talk philosophy. The alcohol inflaming one mind had, however, quite numbed the other and not even a shoe, which Mr. Carson picked up and hurled, could revive the argument. Transported with drunken rage, Philosopher Carson sprang at the sleeper, raining...