Word: napped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman and Rayburn led a ragged chorus of "Happy Birthday," Celebrator Garner sliced into a handsome cake, quavered a brief thank-you speech. "I love everybody." he concluded. "I've never had any hatred in my heart." Then, amid cheers, the old man shuffled off for his afternoon nap while the boys lined up for the backyard feast...
...first answer is very French but not much fun. Brigitte's uncle, a not-too-old goat of a Spanish nobleman, tries to horn in on her afternoon nap, and only the fortunate interruption of a passing prelate rescues the heroine (and the audience) from a fade worse than death. The second answer is very Spanish but rather grotesque. Since no suitable male is available, B.B. decides to make playful advances to a fighting bull. As she sidles up to him mooing small endearments, the poor bull just stands there looking cowed. The third answer is very Hollywood...
Home Before Dark (Warner). "Charlotte, you know you shouldn't have coffee on an empty stomach." "Charlotte, you really do smoke too much." "Charlotte, you look so tired. Do go take a nap now." "Charlotte, we simply have to go to Boston and get you some decent clothes." Charlotte (Jean Simmons) has just come home from a mental hospital, where she has spent a year and undergone eight applications of electroshock, and her stepmother (Mabel Albertson) is determined to do her duty by the unfortunate creature-no matter how unpleasant it may be for both of them...
...Churchill said: "All babies are like me." The resemblance is more than superficial. Amidst the blooming, buzzing confusion which is an infant's world. Churchill remained the calm eye of the nursery hurricane, demanding a child's secure universe of bath (always at the same temperature), undisturbed nap, and steady liquid diet...
...Nap & Nip. Foremost, perhaps, is: "Throw away the skillet and the deep-fat fryer." Dr. Jordan's aversion (she calls it a phobia) to frying is that it incorporates the fat more securely in the basic food so that the stomach has to work harder to digest it. Another injunction has been dubbed "Nap and nip." Hard-pressed executives, Dr. Jordan holds, should have a quiet lunch, free from stressful business talk, and a cat nap afterward; then they should have one or two highballs (she believes in tall, diluted drinks, is dead set against cocktails) to relax them...