Word: napping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private building industry. ... It will certainly cause men who are now loafing on made work with nothing to work with or at, to loaf more hours. ... It will certainly afford an alibi for the incompetents in the Public Works Administration [who] can now take a long winter's nap...
...magnified. Official witnesses and a handful of newshawks turned up their coat collars and shivered in the Cologne prison yard. Down below the Rhine steamers hooted mournfully. A door clanked. Out marched brownshirts, prison guards and the official executioner -a Cologne butcher on other days. Hoarfrost formed on the nap of his official top hat, on the shoulders of his official tailcoat. The door banged again. Out marched the prisoners, six of them with necks shaved and prison blouses open at the throat. One by one they knelt at the red-painted wooden block. Six times the executioner...
...nose. He has the longest contract without options in Hollywood ; it was signed by his grand mother because his widowed mother, Mrs. LeRoy Winebrenner of Altadena, Calif., was only 16. Actor LeRoy works two hours a day, in seven-minute intervals. At 10:30 a. m. he takes a nap. Like most featured players he has two "stand-ins"' (understudies) to take his place on the set while lights and props are being ar ranged. He likes baked potatoes, butter, spinach, zwieback, watches that have a loud tick. He distrusts W. C. Fields. His next picture will...
...husband in whom discreet laziness outweighs valor sees with resignation that his giddy wife is about to be seduced. Unable to do anything about it, he resumes his interrupted nap...
...Frank Frisch, who last week replaced Charles Evard ("Gabby") Street: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, 8 to 2; in which Pitcher Jerome ("Dizzy") Dean struck out 17 Chicago batters, one more than the modern record which was jointly held by Frank Hahn, Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and Nap Rucker; and in which his catcher, Jimmy Wilson, was enabled to make a record also, with 18 putouts; at St. Louis. Manager Frisch's oldtime rival, Rogers Hornsby, this year his understudy on the Cardinals, last week left the team to become manager of the St. Louis Browns, tail...