Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday night when the jury of business and professional men retired to consider the case. Rather than lock up the jurymen, Justice McCook went to sleep in his chambers. Lucania and his friends lay down in their cells. Their wives went home. Just after 5 the next morning the judge was roused from his sleep. Lucania & friends shuffled into court in wrinkled clothes. Prosecutor Dewey, on the other hand, bounced in with a fresh shave...
...used for years seemed strange to me, and while I knew what they were, could not get it through my head how to use them. Writing was out of the question. ... In crossing a room, I would bump into most anything, and I had a desire to sleep much of the time...
...Paramount). Although strictly for neighborhood consumption, this is the kind of trailer for that masterpiece of comedy that may some day be written about the science of psychoanalysis. Charles Ruggles as Chester Beatty, employe of a glass-eye manufacturer, worries about his subconscious. He walks in his sleep, a secret sorrow which has delayed for 20 years his marriage to Tessie Weeks (Mary Boland). To secure a gigantic glass-eye order from the owner of a doll factory (George Barbier), he takes his bride to a sanatorium where the doll maker is recovering from an odd disease for which...
...scientist from Plato to Einstein*;a universe in which Future and Past are both parts of a unified reality, and in which the distinction between them is a purely mental one. In the preoccupied waking state, reasoned Philosopher Dunne, the mind has no contact with the "future" in sleep, when it wanders more freely, it does...
...Jackson advises people with removable dental bridges or sets of false teeth to take them out of their mouths before going to sleep. "Some people are extremely sensitive about this," he once told a group of Philadelphia dentists, "and it is amazing the number of people who are annoyed when I suggest that they remove their dentures before retiring. . . . The chances of suffocation are not great. Occasionally a man has been asphyxiated by a denture or a tooth. But not nearly so often as by an oyster." The obstruction which Dr. Jackson has found most often in the gullet...