Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only TIME writers, but TIME'S late hours and odd editorial work week (we go to press on Monday, take Tuesday & Wednesday off) are special problems for our researchers. They can't sleep late Sundays, have trouble getting to church, worry about their boy friends taking other girls out on Saturdays and Sundays, often have to ride the milk train to the suburbs. Says one, with some asperity: "The butcher closes promptly at six and I am never there...
None admits to being a tightwad, but 53% say they are certainly extravagant. Most of them live in New York City (alone, with families, roommates, husbands)-pursue a variety of hobbies from "catching up on sleep," collecting sea shells and antique jewelery, to studying economics-see a movie, a play, a concert apiece about once a month-wear an evening dress about once a year, spectacles part of the time. Altogether they own a total of five cats, three dogs and a horse. They smoke steadily (a pack of cigarettes a day), and only one is a teetotaler...
Rich Mixture. In Jersey City, Mrs. Mary Pearman, unable to sleep, mixed herself a drink of wine, aspirin, liniment, mentholated salve and Worcestershire sauce, slept it off in a hospital...
Zook's own special A.C.E. interest just now is rounding up private aid for Europe's devastated schools. Says he: "I don't know how to say this exactly, but if I hadn't started to lose some sleep over this, I don't think anyone would have...
...sleep with a woman but every man is kind of special proud...