Word: nightcapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raised in Italy but a longtime U.S. citizen. Father Gussoni. 39, was on leave from a welfare post in New York City's archdiocese, living in Rome for his health (a throat condition). After dinner with three lay friends from the U.S., he dropped in for a nightcap at a relatively unexciting nightspot, Club 84. "We're all Americans," said one of them. "We didn't think anything about...
...lone bandit yesterday looted the home of Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., Associate Physician to the University Health Services. Entering Wells' home on Nightcap Lane in Weston, the burglar bound and gagged Mrs. Wells, two small children, and the maid...
...developed a passion for hospitals. Propped up on pillows, he "wrote his way through reams of hospital paper, pouring out poems, prose [and] presided in state over all the affairs of the ward." Young poets and admirers came daily to his bedside, listened rapturously while the Master, his hospital nightcap jauntily askew, recited his poems aloud. Then they tiptoed out, after "carefully depositing under the inverted chamber pot a bottle of brandy, or a flask of absinthe, some cigars or tobacco...
...sentence passed out. After first making sure that a press photographer was on hand, Tony was ducked, one girl jumped in all by herself, and everyone had a simply hilarious time until the police arrived and the deliquescent juveniles retreated to Le Condor for a nightcap. Tony promised that more was to come. "Everything has been as dead as a duck while I've been away," said he, "but that's all over...
...know whether to take a Benzedrine and go to a party or take a Seconal and go to bed"). But the chronic variety requires a plumbing of the patient's psychological difficulties. Modell also suggests some nonmedical remedies: changing sleeping habits, eating before bedtime, swigging a nightcap, reading in bed. Counting sheep is not much help...