Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latrobe Roosevelt (fourth of the blood to hold the office) enabled Franklin Roosevelt to put Charles Edison on the job. Recent naval history made it a formidable task. Post-War reaction against armaments in 1922 led the U. S. into the Washington (naval limitation) Treaty and a long naval sleep. Sailor Roosevelt woke up the country with a bang in 1933, dumped PWA funds into an emergency program, followed up with regular appropriations as soon as Depression I began to lift, has not let up during Depression II. On its Navy the U. S. has spent...
Woburn for their .$7,600. Mayor Kane retaliated by accusing them of being sleepy heads who never earned their $42 per week and therefore should no longer sleep on the town's charity. He ordered their beds & bedding taken away...
Long before the Spanish civil war, in 1923, Bates went from England to Spain, settled among fishermen in a coastal village. The people, whom he loved, called him El Fantastico because of his incredible energy: he slept only four hours a night, and so that his sleep might be deep, went for a long swim or wrestled in the afternoon. He organized the fishermen into unions...
...memorial service, Ehler has to climb up in the tower and toll the bell at close quarters. Most of the time he is on duty as janitor of Matthews Hall. Asked if he had no compassion for the Freshmen who daily are so rudely jarred out of their sleep by the five minutes of continuous bell-ringing, Ehler said, "Yes, I think two minutes is long enough, but Dean Sperry, he says nothing doing...
...together with a few dozen bathing beauty winners, and not a penny to his name. Non, pas un son. During the course of his wanderings in and out of hotel doors (and windows) he happens upon the fourth richest girl in America and kindly offers her a place to sleep. Believe it or not, out of this emerges a fashion show, a stolen necklace, a happy marriage, and the Yacht Club Boys. From any technical point of view, the picture is worthless; but for a tired Harvard man, just having staggered through a bitter examination period and not inclined...