Word: nap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slumber, I'll nap and I'll drouse...
...sprinkling of foreign diplomats took their seats, to be suddenly startled by the furious ringing of bells. A messenger entered bearing an alarm clock which he said was for Vice President Dawes. The messenger was rebuked for reviving an old source of embarrassment to Mr. Dawes . . . the nap he took when his presence in the Senate would have broken a tie and made Charles B. Warren Attorney General...
...Jordan should not receive payment for doing all the housework of their apartment unless she should sweep the floors northward on odd days of the month, southward on even days. Ingenious, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz kept track of the sweeping by observing each evening which way the nap lay on their living-room rug. Relentless, cruel, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz detected wrong sweepings during January, February, April and June, withheld payment for those months...
...strange career: in politics a swift climax and a slow diminuendo; in religion a growing autserity; and a sudden termination. His invalid wife sent his chauffeur to call him from his rest and found him resting forever, stricken in an afternoon nap by the bursting of a blood-vessel in his brain as he was preparing to launch on another crusade for Fundamentalism against Evolution, dead on the scene of his last combat, at Dayton, with his last great speech unmade...
...clock I would go home and take a nap for ten minutes. Then I would find what I was to speak on and be ready to keep the engagement at eight...