Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After donating the largest contribution I could afford to the drive in our city for an ambulance for Britain, after knitting until I could count knit and purl in my sleep for Bundles for Britain, after wrapping bandages until my arms were sore, I sat down to read your magazine of Sept. 2 and what should I come across but an article on the Duchess of Windsor, whom I had admired. She sent for Wayne Forrest, a famous hairdresser, to come to Nassau to do her hair. For this trip he had to fly and bring a permanent-wave dryer...
...Proper Perspective. Londoners were heartbroken to have the past bombed out of their lives. They were, as well, dog-tired from night after night without sufficient sleep. Many were homeless, many hungry, many bereaved, many injured. Death mounted to over 1,000 at week's end. Nevertheless, all accounts continued to report Londoners' chins and thumbs up, their spirits unbroken. But although bad civilian morale has lost many a war in the past, good civilian morale has won very few. What were the concrete military results of Germany's first week of all-out bombings against...
Into the swank Savoy Hotel shelter, where guests can dine, dance and sleep, marched 50 ill-clad men & women with two children. Leading the pack was Phil Piratin, famed Hyde Park Communist orator. Two elegant Savoy directors, a constable and a Scotland Yard detective could not make them budge, but the stunt missed fire when the all clear sounded after only 13 minutes...
...they did in Brussels before Waterloo, British officers danced late in London last week. In Berlin there was no dancing. Dancing is forbidden in Germany as a frivolity out of keeping with war. In Britain they danced to show their nerve-and because they could not sleep. Berliners looked at the wreckage of their homes, remembered that they had been told their city was impregnable, said nothing. Londoners shook their fists at the sky. As sirens wailed and fires burned, as the war of mutual destruction gained fury, stolid Germans and the scarcely more volatile British alike wondered if this...
...reaching the Royal Palace General Antonescu began a series of showdown sessions with His Majesty which left both of them scarcely a wink of sleep for 48 hours. It is hard to pry an obstinate king in the prime of life off even a shaky throne, and Red Dog, between irate sessions with His Majesty, conferred with Rumanian leaders of all parties and groups -Peasant, Liberal and Iron Guard-as well as with the diplomatic representatives of Hitler and Mussolini. The German Minister conferred with the Russian Minister. Stress tugged at counter-stress, hypocrite smiled on hypocrite, the mob howled...