Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satirical and slightly acid in places but don't let that bother you; you can either--take it or leave it alone. It has a story--and what a story. It seems there was this little girl from Glens Falls. At the end of the first scene she falls asleep and everything goes black. From that point on there is rhyme but no reason to her adventures. The result is a Gilbert-and-Sullivan Freud, a syncopted Alice in Wonderland...
...aged three, Marceline, perched on the shoulder of an old clown, entered a bullfight arena where his helpless sprawlings made him funny. Marceline preferred to say that he had run away from the tailor to whom he had been apprenticed, crawled under a circus tent and fallen asleep. Then an old clown had saved him from the crouching lion against whose cage he had dozed and taught him the astonishing art of making people laugh. All the legends made Marceline a Spaniard, but he talked with a tight cockney whine in his voice...
...Brussels. The debauchees of the previous night were asleep. The famed fountains exuded sparkling water in the sunlight as passers-by bought their morning newspapers and hurried to their cafe an lait at nearby restaurants. There was a faint bustle in the air as the capital began to get into its business stride...
Cows. In Cranford, N. J., two mild cows stepped into the middle of a highroad and fell asleep. For one hour, motorists coaxed, kicked, whistled, roared, cursed, stroked. The two would not budge. At last three men who were friends of the cows came by. They-the chief of police, the supervisor of the school, the principal of the school-per- suaded the comfortable cows to leave the smooth, warm surface of their roadbed...
...Pittsburgh, celluloid-visored Joseph Castro fell asleep in somebody's office. Inspired by his snoring, a gum-chewing office joker removed a wad of moist substance from under his tongue. "Lookit," he said, "what do you say we play a joke?" Stealthy as a murderer he approached Joseph Castro, stuck a little tee of gum on the end of Mr. Castro's nose. When spectators giggled, the joker still stealthy as a murderer, became inspired to touch a match to the little tee he had built. Dreaming of a sunny beach, Joseph gave his nose a little wriggle, opened...