Word: nap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Major Boettiger, an AMG official stationed at the War Department since his return from Italy early this year, goes off to work, and little Johnny goes off to kindergarten. The boy stays there until 4 p.m., eating lunch and taking a nap at the school. He rides both ways on the street car, accompanied by a Secret Service...
Mexicans are accustomed to go home for a big lunch, take a nap, return to work. The decree, when it takes effect, will allow them one hour only; most will have to lunch downtown. The siesta is not a proof of laziness; office hours average about as long as in the U.S. But it requires four commuting trips a day instead of the U.S. two. In small cities the custom is efficient, pleasant. In crowded Mexico City, with 1,750,000 people and few downtown restaurants, the siesta puts a tremendous strain on transportation...
...Rooney wit. Well out of sight of the director, Mickey still mugs like a tic-ravaged chimpanzee in hopes that Cinemactress Garland will louse up the take with a laugh. An example of the Rooney wit occurred during the shooting of Babes in Arms. While Judy was catching a nap in her dressing room, Mickey planted a smoke-pot at the doorsill, bawled "FIRE!", and dashed a glass of water in her face as she sprinted out. Sometimes Miss Garland retaliates. When, making Girl Crazy, she appeared in white calfskins, Mickey quipped: "You look like a vanilla ice-cream cone...
...still relishes jokes and wisecracks. He can still drop off for a cat nap anywhere, anytime. He still looks forward to a nightly old-fashioned or two in his study before dinner as a high point of his day. He has grown almost impervious to political criticism. He rarely becomes angry at all-and then it is usually when somebody snipes at him through one of his children. The four Roosevelt sons in service help explain the President's great sensitiveness to the casualty lists-always the first thing he asks about when told of a battle.* That sensitiveness...
...GRINNING PIG - Nap Lombard - < Simon & Schuster ($2). Two successful slayings and sundry near misses by a pig-masked killer keep a whole crew of English detectives - amateur and professional - on the jump. An amusing, almost unguessable, exciting yarn, as bright as paint and thoroughly unprincipled...