Word: nap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight a war in France, an' all 'e's got to shoot at is a bloomin' painted backdrop. 'E heventually walks to the beach, since 'e's walked everywhere else there is, an' 'e lies down for a nap while the Stukas bomb all the other blokes...
...Tris Speaker, 3,515; Honus Wagner, 3,430; Eddie Collins, 3,313; Nap Lajoie, 3,251; Paul Waner, 3,152; Cap Anson...
Signs of the hard times are inescapable. A movie house proclaims cheaper admissions for holders of unemployment-compensation cards. Another recently started staying open all night, reviving the Depression custom of letting movie houses serve as places for shelter and a nap. Groceries advertise another depression standby: day-old bread. Restaurant men who used to have trouble finding enough dishwashers and porters now turn away lines of eager applicants. The police report a sharp upsurge in burglaries, thefts, armed robberies. On the other side of the law, a lot more young Detroiters are eager to wear a police uniform...
...foreign-aid speech to be delivered this week. A few times, Personal Secretary Ann Whitman dropped by to take a little dictation. Perhaps twice a day the President talked by telephone to the White House staff. As for the rest, the days fell into pattern: lunch, a nap, bridge (with Humphrey; veteran golfing companion Bill Robinson, Coca-Cola president; and Ellis Slater, retired president of Frankfort Distillers), supper, bridge and bed by about...
...local Metropolitan Auditions. Pet of the Bocce is onetime La Scala Basso Antonio Meloni, who rooms across the street from the bar, has played pinochle there nearly every day since it opened in 1939. Basso Meloni, 81. arrives each morning at 10, stays all day, takes a short nap after dinner, brushes his shoulder-length white hair and returns for the evening. He sings at the drop of a bocce ball, joins Peironi's troupe at least once a night...