Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next year Maurice Grosser, a "natural," had been given an exhibition at Harvard and had even sold some watercolors. He graduated with honors in mathematics, which he has never used since except for reading himself to sleep. First as a workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted himself...
...through the pine-shadowed lakes of western Ontario. If it was late at night when the King and Queen passed through a hamlet, crowds that gathered to see the shuttered cars flash by waved their flags, but kept silent lest they disturb King George and Queen Elizabeth's sleep. At White River, "coldest spot in Ontario," the train stopped to service the locomotive. On the snow-sprinkled platform Indians, school children, townspeople hoping against hope that they might glimpse their sovereigns, were overjoyed when Queen Elizabeth, motioning the King to follow, stepped from the train. Flustered aides rushed...
After a few hours' sleep in Munich, Edouard Daladier flew back to Paris a worn, tired, nervous, scared man. In the plane he stiffened his courage by downing a few more pastis (a legal absinthe drink) than usual. As he alighted from the plane at Le Bourget, Paris airport, and saw a big crowd waiting, he grabbed the arm of an aide, exclaimed in apprehension: "My God, where are the Mobile Guards...
Under Lawyer Leibowitz's guidance, Louis Greenfield told of dreams he began having which "seemed to tell me, 'If you love Jerry ... let him slip away peacefully in his sleep . . . and he won't be tormented and looked at and yelled at and tortured by doctors." After one fitful, dream-racked night, Greenfield sent his wife to the shop, did the deed...
...called for one to six months' service for special training and to bring His Majesty's armed forces up to war strength, ready "if necessary to take the field at short notice." Said dramatic Mr. Hore-Belisha: "It is a time when the nation must sleep on its haversacks...