Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sultan went into a trance, staring intently into the crystal ball. He was silent for a long time. I thought for a minute that he had gone to sleep, but he finally began to speak...
...Barry Was a Lady (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the Hollywood version of Songwriter Cole Porter's tuneful Broadway dream about the Court of Louis XV. The Broadway dream was lively enough to wake anybody up. The Hollywood dream is all too easy to sleep through. Broadway offered the team of Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable, with a good grade of gents'-room humor. Hollywood substitutes Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Virginia O'Brien, with vulgarity from the lesser lavatories...
...found at his old home in New Iberia, La., he became a voluble correspondent. He slowly pecked out his careful letters on an old typewriter. Says he: "You can sit down with a cup of coffee and a cigaret and be sure you won't go to sleep because that little bell keeps waking you up." Bunk kept insisting in his letters that if he had a trumpet and a good set of teeth he could play "as good as ever." Russell took up a collection and bought Bunk a set of store teeth. Today, before Bunk eats...
...down to sleep...
...must become accustomed to doing without sleep. Getting up at 5 o'clock at Atlantic City is somehow not to be compared with getting up at 8 or 9 o'clock at Adams House...