Word: overslept
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...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...