Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sleep, Gentle Sleep. This was more than Scott had made on his company in recent years. New Zealand-born, Scott fought in France as an Anzac corporal, came to the U.S. and wrote a syndicated newspaper column on how to build homemade radios. In 1924, he organized his company. It flourished erratically. So did the Scott legend...
...sleep-lover, Scott once dozed while driving, and crashed into a North Chicago bungalow. To remind himself that sleep can be dangerous, he had an artist do a painting of the wreck, hung it in his office. A worrier, he devised ways to check on his salesmen's selling talks. One way: he hid microphones behind pictures and under display radios so that he could listen in on the sales spiel in the privacy of his rooftop office. He pioneered in the building of super-duper radios, sold them to wealthy householders for as much as $15,000 each...
...poppy or charms can make us sleep as well...
...short sleep past, we wake eternally...
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures...