Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your political clubs are half asleep," said Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...automobile and frigidaire companies dicate American politics, no matter who takes the trout-fishing trips." But on the other hand there is a certain admirable insouciance in the attitude, not wholly unrelated to that of Nero's fiddle-act, nor to the carefree independence of the man who fell asleep during Smith's inaugural address. And it will be a crusty gentleman indeed who cannot smile at the "Whispering Campaign" or "The Little White House in the East." It will be an even blinder" one who cannot find the connection between the figure of New York's first famous citizen...
...discovered that the grave of Richard, first Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Scottish statesman buried last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 20), had been opened during the night. A man was found asleep in a corner of the graveyard. Investigation identified him as the stranger who had momentarily halted Lord Haldane's funeral in London to protest. He explained that he was a spiritualist, said Lord Haldane was not dead, that he had a message for him. The man has been arrested...
Died. Arthur J. Lamb, oldtime writer ("Asleep in the Deep," "The Naughty Little Bird on Nellie's Hat," etc.); of an embolism; in Providence...
...peasant birth, who attains a lieutenant's commission in the Russian army by hard work and through the influence of a kindly general (George Fawcett). Ivan worships the general's haughty daughter (Camilla Horn), but she treats him as peasant swine. One night, he accidentally falls asleep in her boudoir and is degraded and cast into prison for his ungentlemanly mistake. The prison gives Mr. Barrymore an opportunity to put on the grease paints and a beard, to look horribly woebegone. The Red Revolution releases him from prison and he becomes a peasant dictator. He refuses...