Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little sleep might be lost over the lack of scoring punch in the forward line, too. Almost all the booters' victories have been too close for much comfort. Look at the record: they beat Massachusetts State by one lone penalty kick, and ended with only a one point margin in their 4 to 3 win over Williams. In that 1 to 1 tie with Darmouth the boys threatened the Big Green nets enough, but that certain something that would have broken the deadlock was lacking. Yet it must be remembered that there are two efficient Sophomores, Herky Herskovits and Jack...
Over half a million camp beds for use in home shelters have now been sold in London alone and "Blitzbachelors" (husbands who have sent their wives to the country for safety) are doffing British decorum to sleep nightly in the narrow family shelters on cots beside the cots of their housemaids. A bomb last week ripped the side wall off a Mayfair mansion of stately appearance, revealed it to have been one of London's most sumptuously equipped bagnios. The walls were covered with erotic frescos rivaling those of Pompeii, and a giggling crowd soon gathered on the sidewalk...
...early tank act a man named Blatz, apparently completely submerged, ate a banana, played the trombone, pretended to go to sleep while reading a newspaper. Veterans declare the submergence was real...
...human fauna. Most exciting piece is The Prairie. One night Audubon asked shelter at a cabin where he found a strapping woman, her two hulking sons, an Indian. The woman admired Audubon's gold watch so much that though he lay down, he decided not to sleep. The woman did not sleep either. Writes Audubon: "Judge of my astonishment, reader, when I saw this incarnate fiend take a large carving knife and go to the grindstone to whet its edge. . . . Her task finished, she walked to her reeling sons and said: 'There, that'll soon settle...
America is preparing. With conscription fully underway our citizens will sleep peacefully tonight feeling their "threatened democracy" is now safe. For only a show of real strength will keep the forces of European totalitarianism at arm's length. But what is to prevent such incipient forces at home from using conscription to promote their own fascism? The Selective Service Act leaves several doors open to such action...