Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then I went to sleep. I awoke when a newsboy went through the ward calling out in a shrill voice, and later when supper came. I didn't eat anything, but I drank a lot of water. I slept on and off into the night, and I felt rotten. Finally, I slept soundly, and when I woke up in the morning I felt a little better, but I still had a sore throat and a headache...
George Bernard Shaw's Buoyant Billions, his first new play in almost a decade, closed in London after a five-week run-the shortest a new Shaw play has ever had in the West End. "Well," he shrugged, "I shall lose no sleep over it." To an inquiring newsman who ventured to hope that 93-year-old Shaw was well, G.B.S. snapped: "At my age, young man, you are either well or dead...
...Sleeping Beauty, the Met's huge stage was turned into a fairyland of castles, caves and gardens. For three hours, through a prologue, three acts and a wedding (only the last part is familiar to most U.S. fans), audiences sat enthralled while Princess Aurora was christened, cursed by the wicked fairy, and put into the long sleep from which she is awakened by the prince's kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot...
...easy to do your regular work. You have your desk, your paper convenient. But it is hard in daytime to get something that is completely different from conventional notions. So I used to work hard all day and get very tired and nervous. Then I could not sleep at night. Sometimes at night I thought of very interesting things. Almost always, in the morning, these things turned out to be untrue. But once in a great while one of them was true and unusual. This was the way, at night, that I thought of the meson theory...
...Touch That Soup! The murder went so quietly that the slaves decided to rob the old lady, too. While they were getting into her trunks, she revived. The second attempt was more thorough, left traces. It also terrified the few white people at Mulberry. When their maids offered to sleep in the same room, to protect them, the women were even more terrified. When they sat down to dinner, old Mrs. Chesnut cried: "I warn you! Don't touch that soup! It is bitter. There is something wrong about it." As it happened, the soup was all right...