Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously, it will take some time to develop this esprit de corps, as it were, but perhaps--in time--to live in a House will mean a bit more than a place to study, to eat, and to sleep. Perhaps it already does...
...back into his own. Later Presbyterian William Jennings Bryan became the great lay leader of Fundamentalism, carrying his crusade to the little Tennessee mountain town of Dayton. There the Lion of the Lord treated the entire world to a spectacular courtroom battle against Evolution, only to die in his sleep just after a mighty triumph over Schoolteacher John Thomas Scopes...
Delighted that Patricia Maguire's long sleeping brain again functions a little, her mother exclaimed: "I do hope she'll be awake to celebrate her 30th birthday next April 1. Patricia weighed 125 lb. when she went to sleep. Now she weighs about 160 lb. She'll have a fit about that when she wakes...
...farm. . . . You know, it had a house at one end and we used to grow radishes." Only successful rehearsers were Donna Marina Torlonia (who once milked a Philadelphia cow) and Princess Dolly Obolensky (whose family once owned some cows in France). At midnight the cows were wakened from sleep for the contest. Chattering debutantes, dressed in sport clothes, trooped from the dance floor and lined up. Blushing attendants led them one by one to the proper spot. From a cautious distance 20 debutante milkers took turns pulling & squeezing at Nysia Maggie Titanic de Kol and Nysia Maid Gertrude, produced...
...Colman had a mouse and a fly. The mouse aroused him from sleep in time for vigils and holy offices. The fly trotted up & down St. Colman's books, kept his place by sitting down on a line whenever the holy man was temporarily called from his literary pursuits...