Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yoder filed suit because he has had the ban placed upon him. To be "mited" means that a former good member of the Amish Church has gone astray from the Amish interpretation of the Bible, and although he may continue to sleep in Amish homes, he is shunned. Members are advised not to eat with the offender, to refrain from any business dealings or associations with him, and in general to disregard...
Johnny Longden, an old man in his trade, may not be the best jockey in the U.S., but he has won more races in 1947 than anyone else. At 37, when many successful jockeys are wealthy enough to sleep late, he is out at San Mateo's Bay Meadows track at 6 a.m., before the morning mists clear off. He wears tailor-made leather jackets with tassels, talks out of the side of his thin-lipped mouth, sports a $2,000 diamond ring on one hand. Jockey Longden is proud that he isn't slowing down...
...chance to come later than me; I'll come at eleven-thirty.' Or he is a sympathetic character who is saying to himself, 'Why should I force this poor fellow out at eleven; I'll come at twelve and give him more chance to sleep.' It doesn't make much difference what he's thinking; in both cases the appointment will start promptly at one-thirty...
...British poets here anthologized seem cowed by the fashions of up-to-the-minute taste. Either they are still unrecovered from their burns from the Auden-Spender firecracker of the '30s (Marx, Freud, Oxford, pathos and wisecracks), or they have slumped into a pale, desiccated romanticism ("Sleep, my love, now love is over. . . . Tender about you, my arms will cover...
...attempted abortion, said she had been wandering around Germany for two years; she had been one of the 10,000,000 Germans who fled the eastern lands now occupied by Poland, Russia and Czechoslovakia. "How would I be able to care for the child?" she asked; "I sleep every night in a railroad station." A 17-year-old Munich boy killed his mother because she would not give him money for the movies; for two weeks he slept beside the corpse. A Berlin entrepreneur rented coffins for burials at 40 marks for five hours...