Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come back pace was too slow after four years in the Army. He had boxed only 113 rounds against 235 for Conn. But he hit the road every morning at 6 a.m. to run and walk six miles (Conn ran only two miles), caught up on sleep by dozing through his rubdowns, drank only bottled mineral water...
...appears that you . . . crawled up into the haymow in the loft and went to sleep. And, in your journalistic slumber, your uninformed, vague subconscious mind caused you to use the adjective "sleepier" about the most wide-awake town in Kentucky...
...alcoholic ward at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. "One night we took in 20. Usually they come between 3 in the afternoon and 8 the next morning, sometimes under their own power, sometimes with the police. A lot of other stews come around just looking for a place to sleep...
They Dream of Soap. Day & night, the public was raped with the good, simple Evans slogan: "Love that soap!" "It's my favorite bar!" Evans told Vic: "You got to eat, drink, sleep, and yes, by God, dream soap. Check?" "Check!" screamed back his underlings in desperate unison. Any one who failed to scream back "Check!" went out on his ear, Partner Kim told Vic. But Author Wakeman's main story is of how Vic gave Old Man Evans as good as he got. It is also the story of how Vic, despite years of cynicism and success...
...Casablanca are not as funny as they should be-the Brothers have been doing this sort of thing for more than two decades, and are far too intelligent not to show the Marx of it; and the teetering hauteur of Margaret Dumont is especially missed. But even in their sleep the Marx Brothers could stage a funnier masque of anarchy than anyone else...