Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Herndon told the District of Columbia Dental Society how he deals with sufferers from "burr psychosis": he puts them to sleep. He has an anesthetist and two other assistants to help him, and a dental chair that can be converted into an operating table...
...brisk morning's work at the office. He barely made it on time. Said a friend: "Juan's idea of relaxing is to sit up till 2 a.m. talking aviation." Even so, he bounds out of bed at 7, can get along on five hours' sleep...
Novelist Miller thought that the trouble might be her placid style. She decided to take a completely new course. She picked herself the pseudonym of Isabel Bolton and, in 1946, published a novel in a new, free style, Do I Wake or Sleep. It consisted pretty much of the interior monologues of a woman of intuitions, like Isabel Bolton. This time, the critics were watching. The New Yorker's Edmund Wilson found the Bolton style "exquisitely perfect in accent"; some of it he compared to The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Said the Nation's Diana...
...About midnight Cirrotta's roommate, Richard A. Wolff, came back from the library and found Cirrotta on his bed complaining that he couldn't sleep. He asked Wolff for a couple of sleeping pills...
...mole not 200 yards from the Little White House at Key West, a 3-in. cannon boomed out the Navy's 21-gun welcome to its visiting Commander in Chief. Harry Truman stirred fitfully in his sleep. Not until the 17th report, he told his aides, did he shake himself fully awake. Then he hopped out of bed and acknowledged the last four booms by standing at attention in his pajamas. When the firing ended, he tumbled back into bed and snoozed peacefully until...