Word: napping
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...drowsy member of the 74th Congress had on Jan. 3 lain down to nap on a cloakroom sofa, and if by some miracle he had slept until last week, he would, on awaking, have had no reason to believe that he had taken more than three winks...
...Navy rookery on Pennsylvania Avenue. Onetime Secretary of War Jefferson Davis' clock ticks on the mantel behind him. Overhead in a case is the flag which draped Abraham Lincoln's coffin. In an anteroom is a comfortable couch where Secretary Dern refreshes himself with an occasional nap. In an office nearby sits John W. Martyn, the chief civil continuing officer of the War Department. Assistant Martyn's job for years has been to tell succeeding Secretaries what to do next...
...millions of distracted mothers did not already know, a young woman at Columbia University set out two years ago to discover What Children Talk About. Dr. Mary Shattuck Fisher selected 72 youngsters between the ages of 2 and 6. For three days, from arrival at nursery school until afternoon nap, stenographers tagged after the children taking down everything they said. In the case of. one garrulous 4-year-old, that meant 1,728 remarks. The most bashful 2-year-old contented himself with 200. Last week, having pored long over the stenographic transcripts, Dr. Fisher finally knew what children talk...
Convivial, gregarious George Marshall belongs to the night-club era of his friend "Jimmy" Walker. Like the onetime Mayor of New York, he dresses in breathtaking ensembles, arrives late for all appointments. A two-hour nap after 5 p. m. tunes him up for his evening rounds. He delights in confounding dowagers. He astounded a dinner party one night by shrilling: "Congratulate me, folks! I've finally arrived socially. Today I got the sheets of Mrs. 'Bordy* Harriman." His friendship with the elder Hearst sons, notably John Randolph, prompted the traditional summons to the Hearst castle...
...Oakland, Calif., aroused from a nap by firemen who told her the house was on fire, old Mrs. Nettie Nelson advised them to put it out, dropped off to sleep...