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...some weeks before his death. Hartley began to withdraw from his friends on the Maine coast. They soon discovered that he fell asleep while sitting in a chair. They brought the village doctor, who persuaded him to go to the hospital. There he died, alone...
Sometimes the men had traveled all night, and arrived in our area dead-tired, and once the lorries, jeeps, tanks, etc. were parked in the spaces allotted, they fell asleep, and slept like logs on the tops of lorries, on the pavement, on ammunition. Some slept on the bonnets of lorries, others inside with their feet poking out -sometimes without boots on. Those who stayed a few days made themselves hammocks and slung them between the buffers of vehicles, or erected microscopic tents and crawled inside. If they were parked outside a house with a lawn, they slept...
Music in Manhattan (RKO-Radio) offers mild pleasure despite the barrenness of its musicomic clichés. Some of them: Ace Philip Terry finds aspiring Actress Anne Shirley asleep in his hotel bed; housing-shortage forces them to pretend they are married; Miss Shirley soars to success as a Broadway musicomedienne, whisks through five production numbers, decides she loves her ersatz husband for keeps...
Revolutionist. In Great Falls, Mont., the police reported the arrest of a man fast asleep in a revolving door...
...lieutenant, his sergeant and I sit down together. They both drop into silence. Soon I realize that they are half asleep, hunched on the boxes that serve for chairs. A German shell bursts in the air just over the house and they tiredly dive for the floor. The lieutenant smiles but does not speak when he resumes his seat before a wall...