Word: insomniacs
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...having slept for two years, Calcutta's insomniac rich merchant Rai Bahadur Ramjidas Bajoria, 65, advertised extensively that to anyone who can restore him to normal sleeping powers he would...
...looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong player, indefatigable host, he likes to keep long and late hours. No busman on a holiday, he reads few detective stories, much philosophy. An insomniac, it often takes a whole volume of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent last summer at Sands Point, L. I. within a few feet of the beach, never went swimming. A slow writer, he works on a typewriter, rarely redoes his copy. Other...
...grabbed his pistol, rushed out of the house in his pajamas, took after the fleeing prowler, dropped him with a bullet in the ankle. "Well, you did it," said the wounded man as Policeman Wright glowered above him. A neighbor, Irving Katlin, the prowler said he was an insomniac. He had entered Policeman Wright's garden, which he had long admired, to soothe his sleeplessness. Policeman Wright, contrite, called an ambulance and said: "I'll give you some of my rose slips...
During its seven-year life the Viking Press has never published a detective story. This criminal negligence the editors are enabled to expiate by the discovery of an "almost perfect mystery." The Tragedy of X strikes a happy balance: not perfect enough to render its readers completely insomniac, it has points enough to make them lose at least a minimum desired amount of sleep...
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