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...followed him up another staircase to a second studio. . . . 'You might like to see these,' he said, bringing [out] a folio of drawings. . . . All variations on the same theme: a young man asleep whom a girl is intently watching...
...embarrassing questions, and one of the dramatic values is the embarrassment of God, of whom the questions are asked. Job, the afflicted, who asks the questions, is embarrassed, too. Only his wife is not: she is too impatient with the two male colloquists. (And too bored: once, she falls asleep...
General Bradley had just fallen asleep when the light woke him. Patton was standing in the doorway. He beckoned. Bradley and Patton went into Eisenhower's room and the three men talked for more than an hour. Sometimes it was hard for them to hear each other because the trucks still roared by outside...
...Philadelphia's distinguished physicians was so absent minded that he forgot his stethoscope when he called late one night to listen to the heart of a lady patient. He leaned down, listened, fell asleep and remained there almost half an hour. The lady thought it "an exceptionally thorough examination." Another famed Philadelphia doctor, S. (for Silas) Weir Mitchell, was a successful novelist, an expert on snake bites, and a pioneer U.S. neurologist. When his own nerves gave way, he rushed to Europe, consulted a Viennese specialist, was told: "In your own country...
...sleek saddle horse tethered to a barnyard fence, and busily engaged in whittling their way through a deal. A third favorite in the show: Farmers Nooning, a sunny, almost odorous scene of farmhands sprawled at rest in a hayfield; the central figure is a huge, blissful Negro, sound asleep, with a small boy tickling...