Word: dozed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awakened at 4 a.m. He sleepily rose from his prison cot, donned his seven-star uniform, shuffled into the hushed courtroom. Nonagenarian Marshal Henri Philippe Petain sat nervously at first, then fell into a half-doze...
...thing on the lot except Leo the Growl and Louis B. Mayer. Most conspicuous ingredients are Ginny Simms, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Gloria De Haven, Lena Home, Hazel Scott, Rochester, Tommy Dorsey. The show lasts just a quarter short of two hours, so there is plenty of time to doze between the best moments. There are also a great many tunes, of which the best remains the 1939 All the Things You Are, as Ginny Simms sings it. Admirers of Lena Home will get a lithe eyeful during a dance which combines conga and boogie-woogie mannerisms. One comic line...
...attorney began to speak, Holmes whipped out his pocket notebook, took notes. Eagerly he would await what he called the point of contact: "the formula-the place where the boy got his finger pinched in the machinery." Sometimes he caught onto it in the first five minutes, would promptly doze...
...said Holmes, "but it's a damn good thing for people to think it is." When Justice McReynolds snapped a question at a green young lawyer, Holmes woke with a start, barked: "I wouldn't answer that question if I were you," fell back into a doze. When he lost his temper because his secretary mislaid a book, Mrs. Holmes found the volume, stuck an American flag in it and a big sign: "I AM A VERY OLD MAN. I HAVE HAD MANY TROUBLES, MOST OF WHICH NEVER HAPPENED." When he read the sign, Holmes laughed till...
...Village green containing a cricket pitch with trees for the faithful to doze under during cricket matches...