Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night trip out of Spokane, Wash., on the night we took it, was featured by a loudmouthed stewardess who kept sleep-inclined passengers awake with an all-night conversation with an unattached sailor...
Back in the U.S., his first concern was for sleep. After a catnap in Manhattan, he buzzed off to Washington, got a full seven hours in his Wardman Park suite. Next day at a press conference, he told newsmen that criticism of his trip did not bother him. "My hide is very thick," he said...
...hoped to extend. "I do think I'd like to live here for the rest of my life," said he. But he said he had some plays he hoped to get produced. His first night was rather makeshift: hotel space was spare, and large, bald Wodehouse had to sleep on a couch. Next day he discovered he couldn't take his Peke into a restaurant with him. About those light-hearted broadcasts from Nazi Germany: they were just thoughtless mistakes. Mrs. Wodehouse explained defensively: "He just didn't realize." Wodehouse, bright enough when it comes to earning...
...Miguel Aléman a reception has been laid out that will befit his position and the new friendliness between his nation and the U.S. He will sleep in the White House, be honor guest at a state dinner. He will address a joint session of Congress. In New York City, before swinging south for an inspection of TVA, he will get a ticker-tape reception, dine with government, financial and business bigwigs at the Waldorf-Astoria. But President Aléman, the first Mexican President to visit the U.S. capital, is headed for Washington and New York on more...
...they wearily climbed out of the plane, Pilot Odom said: "I'm going to sleep." Said Sallee: "I'm going to eat, sleep and get married." (He did.) Two days later, ads in Manhattan papers cried the real news: "Just arrived! 'Reynolds Bombshell' ball-point pens...