Word: nap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even a Student Vagabond is now and then sorely tempted by the bright lights and dancing figures, so while solar eclipses and state income taxes wend their way through the class room, the Vagabond will drowsily clutch his bottle and enjoy a brief nap in preparation for an evening of relaxation from the strain of being intellectual among the greater immortals. For, although the Pudding show comes every year, it is not always with the brand of music and dancing that accompany the present show. So with the best of intentions he hopes that some kind-mortal will notice...
...student wakes up to the buzzing of his alarm clock at twenty minutes to ten. Before he has had time to compose himself for a last nap before his ten o'clock class the Catholic Church east of the Gold Coast chimes a mellifluous quarter hour and it is time for him to get up. At Arthur's ten minutes later it is still quarter to ten; so, reassured, he sits down to hearty breakfast. At ten precisely he begins his leisurely stroll to class until he casually glances up at the Memorial Hall to find to his consternation that...
Southbound. Leaving Washington, President Coolidge smoked a long cigar. Then he took his after-lunch nap. Passing through Virginia, he discoursed on the Civil War. Entering North Carolina towards dusk, he looked out of the car window at farmers' brush fires. He dined early, on steak (medium), carrots, tea, Roquefort cheese. He smiled at Pullman-waiter T. C. Radcliffe, thanked him, retired to the club car to see Will Rogers in a cinema called A Texas Steer (comedy). Cuban travel scenes and "shots" of Havana were also shown...
...recipe of Milan cooks; and occasionally a cutlet. He percolates his own coffee and drinks it black. While he lunches thus, prelates on their knees read him his correspondence and extracts from Italian and foreign newspapers. After luncheon he goes to his private apartments for a brief nap...
Cleaning carpets by suction machinery is scarcely 20 years old. Before 1907 the housewife dragged a broom across the carpet nap or, when she could afford it, she bought a carpet sweeper. Bissel was the most popular make of sweeper. It had (and still has) a revolving brush that picked up lint, bread crumbs, hairpins, cigaret butts, needles, roaches, broom, straws, candy, germs. The matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang...