Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aboard the collier Anthony O. Boyle of Quincy, Mass., one Martin Ward crawled into his forecastle bunk and fell asleep. From the bunk above Seaman Ward's issued the stertorous breathing of a 250-lb. shipmate, also slumbering. Waves lapped and buffeted the collier's hull. Timbers creaked. Into the monotonous orchestration of the forecastle's night sounds crept a small cracking note, a rip, a split, a smothered crash. Ward awoke, in intense pain. His brain flashed: "Shipwreck! Drowning:!" Then a terrible weight lifted as the 250-pound shipmate removed his person and his bunk from...
Stanley Baldwin, Premier of Britain: "The secret leaked out last week that recently, when I passed through Paris on my way home from Aix-les-Bains, I arrived at the French capital asleep, though the hour was 10 a. m. Rubbing startled eyes, I beheld through the window of my sleeping compartment a silk-hatted delegation of welcome from President Doumergue. Discomfited but not nonplused I dressed hastily and managed to receive my well-wishers just before my car was switched onto a train destined for Calais...
...Stories," slept, left the next morning. Mr. Rogers then informed the press: "I guess I was too much for him. We sat around in the living-room upstairs, swapping yarns, but by 8 o'clock he started to yawn and by 10 o'clock he had fallen asleep...
...fact is that Mr. Coolidge did not fall asleep on that night until he had re-Kr-.d to his bedroom...
...Some ran; four stayed, one laughing loudly, saying, "I've seen them before!" The lion took a leg of mutton from the counter, stalked out the back door. A tiger, escaped from the same circus, ate an entire lamb in a butcher's shop, was captured fast asleep...