Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stretched by ropes and pulleys and weights, said leg being held immobile by a yard-long sandbag on either side, an alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will be completely and expertly accomplished by said means...
...year-old sprout was dragged from his sleep on a cold cell floor to be prodded with the endless question: "Were you a member of a counterrevolutionary, Fascist, terroristic organization?" After nights of browbeating, the bewildered lad "confessed." The zealous agents then attempted to get him to confess that he had started recruiting for such an organization in 1935 (when he was seven years...
Omitting such a famous scene as Falstaff shamming dead, such a famous character as Owen Glendower, such a famous speech as Henry IV's expostulation to sleep ("Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"), Five Kings "covers" Shakespeare as a two-day Cook's Tour would cover England...
There lives in Winthrop House a young man suffering from a peculiar ailment. He cannot get up in the morning. For that matter, he can just barely get up in the afternoon. He just loves to sleep. Now sleeping is no rare ailment at Harvard. The peculiar quality about this young man's ailment is that ordinary methods do not arouse him from slumber. The most potent and heavy-handed alarm clock, placed only a few inches from his ear, startles everyone else on the floor, but to our young man it is as soft breezes sighing in the trees...
...showing at Keith Memorial Theatre. Fields puffs and wheezes his way through a second-rate script that almost submerges the beauties of his alcoholic capers. Luckily Charlie McCarthy, with stooges Mortimer and Bergen in tow, gives the picture a hypodermic of crackling dialogue that saves it from going to sleep on its feet...