Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stone house on Pittsburgh's dourly fashionable North Highland Avenue, Joseph Jr. was born. There, in a city belching smoke, steel and dollars, he was brought up, educated at Shadyside Academy and Cornell. From 1908 to 1914 young Joe learned the oil business-five nights without sleep bringing in a new Illinois well, driving eight-ox teams with loads of pipe through West Virginia mud, laying a 20-mile stretch of solid-mahogany corduroy-road in Venezuela. During World War I he joined Sun Oil's Philadelphia office as aide to Elder Brother John Howard...
...inhabit the maze of rooms. That way of life, shared by all members, is cemented by a constant round of communal activity--the Christmas play, the seasonal dances, the year-round sports competition. After ten years of incessant building, the House is infinitely more than a place to eat, sleep, and study...
...reaction to American White Paper may tell much. But gone were the days when Calvin Coolidge spoke for the nation in saying "The business of America is business." Senator Key Pittman last week seemed almost as out-of-date when he said: "Let the mothers and fathers of America sleep in peace...
...following remarks were made:-'Is the Western Front composed of husns [castles]? Do the sentries stay on the roof? They must not sleep at night because the enemy might attack. If the Inkriz [English] win the war-inshallah! -they must take hostages from the Sultans and agils [wise men] of the Alaman. Were the earthquakes in Turkey caused by the Alaman? The Turks must retaliate and make earthquakes in Germany...
This year their troubles start when they go to a hospital with suitcases labeled M.D. (Mule Drivers), are mistaken for two medicos, end in jail. The show is garnished with such slapstick as putting a patient to sleep by letting him smell an old shoe, such gags as "Your head sets on one end of your spine and you set on the other." Silas gets broad at times, but never really dirty. What keeps it moving are its dances and specialty acts, its gold-toothed but good-looking chorus...