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Word: sleeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the British Prime Minister had been through 13 days of such labor, strain and anxiety as would have wrecked the constitution of many a man under 30. And Mr. Chamberlain emerged from it rather fatigued but quite unshaken. Fortunately the old do not need much sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Great Change | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Author Erich Maria Remarque and 2,327 other passengers. Some of them had slept on the floor, some on cots in the public rooms. Mr. Morgan, who usually takes a suite, had occupied a small room containing one small bed. But, said he, it was "the size I always sleep in at home. Really, I don't have a bed half an acre large." Mr. Warner was in a warlike mood, bluntly maintained that "the liberty and freedom we obtained from fighting the British we will now have to fight with them to retain. . . . Isolation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE IN WAR NEWS | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan two days before the scheduled broadcast, to show his stuff. In the agency's Madison Avenue skyscraper office, before a delegation of NBC officials, Mr. Klein, who at 37 still looks like Robert Taylor, fixed his fascinating eyes on a girl stenographer. -'You are going to sleep," said he, levelly, (ito sleep, to sleep. . . ." Sure enough, off she went. Mr. Klein turned to another girl-"sleep, sleep, s-l-e-e-p"-and off she went too. Then, magically, he woke them both up. Mr. Klein turned to his auditioners, with a who's-next look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S-L-E-E-P | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Hobby Lobby has some 5 million listeners. If even a hundred of them corked off, without Mr. Klein in the living room to wake them up, it could make a mightier stir than the Orson Welles-invoked invasion from Mars. Why, some of the audience might even sleep through the commercial ! No sir! Thanks awfully, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S-L-E-E-P | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...little Lambs worshiped their forceful mother who ruled over vast, anarchic Melbourne House. Order-loving Lady Granville, in an exasperated moment, described it as "that great ocean, where they wander about all day and sleep about all the evening; no meal is at a given hour, but drops upon them as an unexpected pleasure." In that matriarchy, the strikingly handsome, tall, dark-eyed, sensual, clever, positive, realistic Lambs horse-played and horselaughed at delicacy and romance, ate prodigiously, fell asleep and snored, shouted their arrogant opinions, cursed loud and long. Yet they had immense love of life, good humor, adroitly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caroline Lamb's Husband | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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