Word: sleepings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penney who, having his sleep disturbed on his palatial Florida estate by a well-liquored cacophony from across the lagoon, had the notorious Al Capone tossed in the clink for disorderly conduct, which, in its legalistic twists & turns led ultimately to the conviction of Capone on a federal tax charge...
...Reader Trommer's is one version of an apocryphal story. According to another version, Capone's highjinks disturbed the sleep of J. C. Penney's house guest Herbert Hoover who, in turn, put Capone in jail. The solid facts are: 1) Penney's estate was on an island nearly a mile across the lagoon from Capone's; 2) Hoover was a house guest at the Penney estate in January 1929; 3) Miami police arrested Capone at least three times in April and May 1930 on charges of "being a public nuisance and source of annoyance...
...time went on, Meryon saw stranger things. His later cityscapes were ruined, collectors thought, by the introduction of monstrous birds and whales wallowing overhead. After he had printed etchings of two perpendicular boxes in which a man and a woman were padlocked to sleep standing up, and made a written attack on ordinary beds ("A piece of furniture that serves the purpose of laziness and lust"), Meryon was hustled off to a madhouse. There, at 46, he died...
...gone to Baltimore to buy Judy a tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia still looking for a tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia to see a show. She had been sick on New Year's Eve. She had gone to the apartment to be sick and sleep. "You branded me as a spy and now you are trying to brand me as a harlot," she cried...
Eddie didn't show up and Ruth decided to forget about killing him and go to sleep. But her phone rang at 11:20 p.m. Eddie had been out and had just gotten her note...