Word: nap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which went biggest was the one left just as it was when Joseph Jefferson, greatest of all Rips, played it in 1859, the scene when bearded old Rip wakes up after his 20 years' nap, finds that everyone has forgotten him and a picture of George Washington taking King George's place in Nick Yedder's tavern...
Although he was haggard, his eyes bloodshot, Mattern permitted himself only a two-hour nap at Moscow. He worked over his plane slowly and painstakingly with Soviet mechanics under brilliant ground-flares, and had increased his lead to five hours when, shortly after midnight (third day) he whipped out of Moscow into the eastern moonlight. However his time across the Urals to Omsk was comparatively slow and he lost a considerable part of his lead. Then, apparently deciding to content himself with an unprecedented solo performance regardless of beating Post & Gatty, he rested in Omsk (where the others...
Helen Keller in a syndicated story told of meeting Writer George Bernard Shaw in Lady Astor's London drawing-room. Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap. When he came, she groped out her hand, felt a hand "bristling with egotism" take it slackly. She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor...
...life of an aging harlot is not likely to be much like a faun's afternoon. In A Day Off the blowzy heroine, just ditched by her last furtive provincial protector, blows in all her remaining shillings on a junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse...
...Nap Verville shot a pair of wolves that rushed him. The bitch supplied them meat for two days. Near Storkersen Bay they visited Alex Stefansson. Vilhjalmur Stefansson's son by an Eskimo woman...