Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Married Her Boss." She Married Her Boss is a Columbia product, set off by a spoiled child and a drinking party in a store window. To Britons the important thing about it is that it projects "a kissless marriage," i. e., the hero and heroine do not sleep together. It is a fair index to British taste and British censorship...
...scrambled down to the ditch in which I sat and punched me again. He said as he did so: 'Everybody knows that a bicycle on the road is more nuisance than the biggest motor lorry.' Then he hit me again and I seemed to go to sleep." Several women were too quick for Mortimer, riding their cycles off the road before he could bunt them. Near Winchfield the Oakes sisters, Betty and Phyllis, were pedaling to the hairdresser. As Betty neared a bridge she heard a big car roar up from behind, swerved well...
...cases eliminated entirely-so long as the crawling posture was maintained. Reporting this last week in Science, Experimenter Hazle Geniesse ventured a guess that such a posture might alter the cerebral blood pressure, remove the spasmodic stimulus. ¶ Dr. Donald Anderson Laird, Colgate's well-publicized authority on sleep, also had a report to make last week on the effect of posture on blood distribution. Dr. Laird thought that, although mankind was benefited by acquiring the upright position, there were some disadvantages. In erect man the blood tends to collect in the abdominal pool, which may cause a slight...
Crumbling, sleazy, disused, the Greek Royal Palace was found last week to contain no bed in which George II by the Grace of God King of the Hellenes could possibly be expected to sleep...
Daughter Ishbel decided to buy and run the 300-year-old Plow Inn hard by the official country home of the Prime Minister, Chequers-a piece of Scottish shrewdness which practically ensures her a steady clientele of statesmen just below the grade of those invited to sleep or eat at Chequers, but who must go there and will be delighted to patronize Boniface Ishbel...