Word: napped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once a week he lunches with the directors of New York Life Insurance Co. When he receives visitors in his study he paces up & down, up & down talking volubly. At 5 p. m. each day, according to a Columbia legend, he pops into bed "raw" for a two-hour nap...
...them. After the concert she was discovered ia her hotel room (she had engaged two rooms, the directors had searched only one), lying on the floor deep in sleep. She said she must have taken two sleeping tablets instead of the prescribed one, in order to have a short nap before the concert. Oversleeping cost...
...White House window curtain had been patched for economy; 2) the President, trying to nap, had ordered a carpenter pounding nearby to "declare a moratorium on noise''; 3) a hideout had been constructed near the White House laundries where Secretary Walter Newton could hold secret political interviews; 4) Mrs. Newton had fallen from her horse into the Rapidan. The only story that Secretary Joslin branded as untrue was one to the effect that a Hoover wolfhound bit a Marine guard and the President, patting the animal's head, remarked: "Nice doggie! Now go bite General [Smedley Darlington...
...famished cry of the other Pribitchevitches. In Belgrade Hospital dauntless old Svetozar Pribitchevitch was propped up in bed by sympathetic nurses. They fed him mush from a bowl. They wiped the old man's chin. When he was discreetly full, they tucked Svetozar Pribitchevitch cozily in for a nap...
...think of these bells they keep ringing all the time. Mr. Editor, I ain't heard nothing like it since I was a boy on the farm. That was down in Maine, though. Anyway, these bells seem to ring whenever I feel like lying down and taking a nap. And they are a nuisance, sir, a public nuisance. I want you to print this letter in your newspaper and maybe that will do something to stop this confounded dingle-dangle for thats all it is. Truly 'yours.' "Veteran...