Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carnarvon in Baltimore; by Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, one of the rare Church of England rectors willing to remarry divorcees; in London. To qualify as a resident of the parish of the Reverend Geikie-Cobb's Church of St. Ethelburga, Parliamentarian Guinness had to rent a room, sleep there seven nights...
...when Johnny apostrophizes the Statue of Liberty as he sails away to France. And from the revue stage and poetic drama, the play proceeds to a forceful sequence of impressionistic scenes. Johnny is found in a trench with his company and while they writhe their twisted limbs in troubled sleep, three great cannon bathed in green light rise over the parapet, ghoulishly croak a lament...
Nights the one window in the bedroom of my Attic makes clatter enough for twenty, shaking and banging, postponing sleep. Lie and shiver under blankets as proof as gossamer, which absorbs the sheets' unfriendly chill. Gradually warmer inside and colder outside my bed. The tip of the nose stays outside the blankets, stays cold. Like a healthy...
...wanted me to go into Vermont and Maine. . . . Now I'm going back to Washington-to do what they call balance the Budget and fulfill the first promise of the campaign, and after a week or so with the Budget I'm going to get some sleep, and, because I can really sleep on a boat, I'm going on a boat to the Caribbean, and I'm going to lie in the sun and sleep, and perhaps catch a fish on the side. I'll get back to Washington toward Christmas time. While Congress...
...arranged to send one of its bullet-nosed transmitter trucks to the scene for a play-by-play description of the voting & counting. That this would dull the brightness of its election morning flash was at once apparent to the Eagle. Editor Lawrence K. Miller sent a newshawk to sleep in the filling station which has New Ashford's one public telephone, to tie up the line day & night against all comers...