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Word: sleeper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader Hitler actually left his famed "Brown House" headquarters in Munich and went to bed on a Schlafwagen (sleeper) bound for Berlin. In the dead of night he exchanged telegrams with two most militant Fascists, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Party chieftain in Berlin, and mighty-midriffed Hermann Göring, Speaker of the Reichstag, who induced him to leave his train at dawn, meet them in Weimar. Apparently they told Leader Hitler, somewhat of a waverer despite his bombast, that the Fascist Party must stick by its announced resolve to fight any Cabinet not headed by Hitler. Soon Fascist headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Christmas Chancellor | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...Glavin '33 lost to Hicks and Ullman, of Dartmouth, 4 and 3. Harvard won the two other foursome matches: R. L. Kimbrough '33, and C. P. Webber '34, defeating Smith and Ryder of Dartmouth, 2 and 1, while M. F. Heath '34, and S. G. Sleeper '33, conquered Fineberg and Clark of Dartmouth, 6 and 5. Webber, M. F. Heath, and Sleeper, all won their twosome matches, while M. A. Heath lost to Hicks of Dartmouth, 2 up, and Glavin was conquered by Ullman of Dartmouth, 2 and 1. Kimbrough and Smith ended even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY GOLF TEAM DOWNS INDIANS, IN INFORMAL MATCH | 10/22/1932 | See Source »

...Cambridge performances are made possible through a group of sponsors which includes: Mrs. Alvan T. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Bancroft, Mrs. Robert M. Saltonstall, Mrs. William Dana Orcutt, Mrs. Charles T. Collins, Mrs. Steven W. Sleeper, Mrs. George Currier, Mrs. Charles Peabody, Mrs. Otis W. Robinson, Mrs. Horaco Morison Mrs. C. Nichols Greene, Mrs. Carl P. Donnott, Mrs. Bliss Perry, Mrs. Edward Ingraham, and Mrs. Henry I. Harrison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDIO PLAYERS PRESENT "FORTUNATO" TOMORROW | 3/31/1932 | See Source »

...wanted by merely chipping off a sliver. He lived in super-Oriental luxury, owned hundreds of shirts, hundreds of neckties, socks, shoes. His house was fitted with every kind of comfort-giving device: buttons that brought soft music from an unseen orchestra, beds that tilted and slid a sleeper gently into a warm, perfumed bath, while violins played. . . . Critics agreed that Author Fitzgerald had imagination; many a college youth dreamed of finding a huge diamond. Last week Bill Paley sailed for the Bahamas with a $10,000,000 diamond in his pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Jazz-Age Diamond | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...Harvard players leave for New Haven at 1.35 o'clock and will return on the sleeper. Although the two Universities have played with only one break every year since 1900 a tie tonight would be only the third in the 32 years of competition.TOP--Jack Winter, stalwart Yale defenseman who halted many Harvard rushes. ABOVE--W. H. Crosby '32 whose reliable poke-checking, In last Saturday's game, broke up many Blue offensives. RIGHT--Captain C. C. Cunningham '32, star forward and body-checker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN TRAVEL TO NEW HAVEN FOR FINALE OF SERIES | 3/9/1932 | See Source »

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