Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mean lead the life that the ordinary man in the street leads, unknown to the American Government, lost in the mob, riding in streetcars, having a Coca-Cola at the counter of some botica, getting into traffic jams, eating hot dogs at the races and getting very little sleep if they should live in New York City where the horns of automobiles make it so tough for one's nerves. No gorgeous Cadillacs or Packards waiting for him at the door of the hotel every morning, no stiff cocktail parties, no limelight...
...when an alarm rings in, the well-oiled mechanism speeds into high gear without a check. At night, the men can awaken from a deep sleep, jump into their "night rig," scoot down the pole, and be away with sirens screaming in 26 seconds. Every motion has been carefully studied to see where life-saving minutes can down. The rescue squad, with first aid equipment, goes out on all alarins. Sometimes it in called by doctors who need oxygen immediately for, heart cases; suiciden, drown longs and gas victims always rate the rescue truck manned by experts n accident work...
...team has been handicapped this week, as who hasn't, by hour exams, so they haven't been able to go all out during practice sessions. However, they hope to make up all their lost sleep after the rally tonight, and aside from lack of beauty rest, they are in top physical shape for the encounter...
...Judith Anderson, in the equally difficult role of Lady Macbeth, the highly ambitions but not naturally bloodthirsty queen, has a quality of realism that Evans lacks. The passionate scenes where she goads Macberth on to his crimes and reviles him for his weakness, are topped off by the famous sleep-walk ag scene, which is played with touching pathos. The honors for this show go first to Miss Anderson, and then to Margaret Webster, who directed; then comes Evans and beneath him a large body of adequate, if undistinguished actors...
...press, mixes his famous "Green Dragon" punch, manages the "Boston Tigers," and is private caretaker, weather-discusser, and day-starter for Professor Copeland. His main ambition is to be a Cabinet Minister; his main contention that "you can always wake a Harvard man with music and put him to sleep with drink"; his life "is an open book"; and his real name is Arthur Johnson...