Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME says but, oh, so wittily, I could not sleep because I did not know Who wrote the piece I chuckled over so. ist T.R.: Ah, yes, I see now what you mean...
...difficult as you seem to think. First, you play your mice a recording of Die Fledermaus, and when they begin waltzing, you turn down the volume and start reading to them out of Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County. This puts the mice to sleep. So you gently place them upon a scale, couple by couple, until it shows a full pound. Then you turn up the volume, and the mice wake up and again go into their dance. Result: a pound of waltzing mice...
...commanding officer and the mayor of the girl's town; 2) the prospective groom must be scheduled to leave the European Theater a month after the application is okayed. Happiest over the new order were the eligible German girls, who had long complained: "We are good enough to sleep with, but not good enough to marry...
Many a money-heavy citizen would spend the holidays in jammed, glittering Florida resorts. To Cartoonist Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, Christmas in Miami Beach would be sun-kissed and expensive. He would sleep late in his Roney Plaza room, golf at the swank La Gorce Country Club, be host at an eggnog party at the Lord Tarleton Hotel. In the evening he would invite a crowd of cronies to a dinner party at the Copacabana Club...
...quick rattle of gunfire, the bomb burst at dawn at Maracay Airport barely disturbed them as they slept nearby in the sprawling Hotel Jardin. To the New York Daily News's John O'Donnell, the bomb sounded like a distant door slam. He went back to sleep...