Word: naps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nap...
Contract pressing ruins clothes. Every time your suit is pressed, it soaks in the dirt, shrinks the cloth, and rubs off the nap. G. M. Brown, Boylston Street, opposite the P. O. Building, has a ticket arrangement, six pieces pressed for $1.00--whenever they need...
...second day Mrs. Barnabie's unemployed husband Florindo relieved her while she took a nap, got a U. S. flag to plant beside her. Said she: "When my little Millie was sick they turned off the lights. They make us pay. Now let them pay." Public Service Electric & Gas Co offered three poles for firewood. Mrs Barnabie set her price...
...Senator from Michigan wishes to be recognized." Senator Erickson stirred slowly. His eyes blinked open. Finally awake from a good sound nap he announced: "The Senator from Michigan!" Thus last week the Senate proceeded with its task of bringing the Administration's legislative program for 1934 to speedy conclusion.* The President who once set May 1 for the adjournment of Congress, then May 15, was urgently hopeful of sending Congress home by the first week in June...
When Mr. Insull woke from a nap he was irritated to learn that the Turks had forbidden the Maiotis' departure. Next day when the ban continued he was alarmed. Turkish police came out and demanded that he go ashore with them. Indignantly he refused, and handsome, swarthy John Ioannis Mousouris, master of the Maiotis, hurried down from the bridge to protest volubly in Greek. Sadly puzzled and somewhat dismayed, the Turkish police retired to their launch...