Word: overslept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, when the Socialist reported for his property yesterday, the night man had overslept, and the officer in whose possession the circulars were, had come and gone. The result was that Cohen was unable to secure his "Welcome To MacDonald" literature...
...allow them to hibernate trustfully, secure in the knowledge of work well-done. Then he will ship them to Australia where, when they are aroused, they will again smell summer and start to make more honey, under the impression, although unable to explain that tired feeling, that they have overslept and must hurry to overtake their work. When winter comes to Australia, the process will be reversed, and the brutally deluded insects will be rudely awakened to toil once more in Washington...
Anyway, I was angry with the editors of the great University daily, and I sent them a statement reading: "I do not choose to write for the CRIMSON in 1927." That of course, cleared everything up and yesterday morning I read in the CRIMSON--the man across the hall overslept that Joe Forecast was again to contribute weekly wisps of wisdom to its readers. Knowing there was only one Joe, unless you count Joe, Jr.--but that is another story--I went post haste to the imposing edifice on Plympton Street to investigate. A heated colloquy with the genial President...
...Montgomerys and their relatives were charming people but oh, so lazy-and Dagmar Hallowell was no exception. She did try to make out the firmest sort of a schedule for herself sometimes -a schedule that included rising at seven-but how could she ever keep it when she always overslept? She débuted, she considered a stage career, she tried to be a working-girl, she fell in love-but in each case laziness sucked the strength from each promising adventure. At last she plucked up courage to go to Chicago -and for a little while she seemed...
...Dean's list must attend their first class today." No doubt that reminder brought back many last night who would have preferred another evening at home, or could have found profit in an extra twenty-four hours to over-take Divisionals. No doubt others will have missed trains, or overslept their first classes, or in other ways inadvertently sinned. The law can be no respecter of persons, and the penalty is probation...