Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hippopotamus. Another time a young girl called up to know if the University Museum was going to exhibit the mermaid which Boston newspapers had reported found off Swampscott. Among the irritating experiences of the operators are inquiries by persons who call up to learn "if the operator is asleep or not", and the arguments of persons who refuse to believe the operator who tells them the line is busy...
Soon official statements were made by the respective foreign offices in such terms that undoubtedly one or the other set of diplomats was lying. The Bolivians said that their troops were sound asleep at six a. m. in Fort Vanguardia on unquestionably Bolivian territory when they were stealthily attacked by Paraguayan soldiers. The diplomats of Paraguay said that their troops had discovered a Bolivian fort on unquestionably Paraguayan territory, had requested the Bolivian garrison to withdraw and had been fired upon for their pains. At approximately the same hour last week both governments claimed that their victorious forces held...
Divorced. Henry Coleman Drayton of Manhattan & Newport, socially prominent cousin of Yachtsman William Vincent Astor; by Mrs. Catherine Livingston Hamersley Drayton. Said Mrs. Drayton: "He fell asleep constantly at dinners, teas, bridge, the opera - everywhere we went to gether. ... I finally became hysterical...
Subscriber Brown fell asleep in Council Bluffs, Iowa, while reading TIME. He has not stated what bored...
...Column 2, page 40. "Hoofs" is the more acceptable plural for "hoof." Incidentally, less is known about the slumber habits of horses than of any other domestic animal. I have been around horses for over sixty years and do not remember ever to have actually seen a horse asleep. Certainly they require very little sleep...