Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coach Bill Barclay embarked on a sleeper last night, and unless the Crimson quintet has been in hibernation since December, the chances are slim that it will awake in time to gain its first victory in the past fourteen starts...
...Penn last October 2. Around 10 o'clock on the Friday before the game, he drove from his Brookline home to the Indoor Athletic Building (where the Columbia game rally had taken place a few hours earlier) and then took the subway to South Station. Before boarding the midnight sleeper, he bought several newspapers, "to get a preliminary idea of the game and pick up some of the atmosphere." Previously he had studied all available movies of the Dartmouth team in action, and had gone over scouting reports on the Big Green for the past couple of years...
...Booterss leave on the 10:30 sleeper tonight with the football team, and will have light practice at Ithaca tomorrow afternoon with the game being scheduled for 12 noon Saturday...
...from New Orleans to Tampa by coach at night requires two changes, and a four-hour wait at Jacksonville. The only sleeper from Atlanta to Nashville bumps to a stop 43 times in ten hours. It has only recently become possible for a passenger to cross the country without changing trains-at the price of two hours of shunting in Chicago yards while the car is scrubbed and the air conditioning wavers erratically...
...went back but she only stayed until midnight. She had to drive the Boss and the President on a tour of the battlefields on the next day. When she left the party was "just shifting into high gear." She thought the President "must be a very sound sleeper as well as a very tolerant father." Kay cornered Mike Reilly, boss of the Secret Service contingent guarding Roosevelt. "Here you are on duty," she chided, "and half of your men are tiddly." Mike replied: "We're tough, Kay. Have...