Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private bedroom and proceeded to dress after lighting his own fire ("so as not to wake the servants"), and work in his private study. But at the appointed hour, he hastily undressed again, scurried into his gorgeous State Bedroom, and allowed himself to be officially roused from sleep by his Gentlemen. Nobody thought there was anything extraordinary about this sham ritual, for it was an exact copy of the method by which France was ruled. Just as Louis XV had a State Bedroom in which to lie down officially, so had he "Parlements" and a "Conseil d'Etat"-Bourbon...
...Galard. "I am quite well," she told the crowd at the airfield, "but I have nothing to say, and I have made up my mind about that." Then, still smiling, she was driven off into Hanoi for a medical check, a good meal and a quiet night's sleep...
...Victor's Artists and Repertory Director George R. (for Richard) Marek. His plan: to win new audiences for records by making music "painless." Among his other recent projects: a series of almost featureless "mood music" (TIME, Feb. 22), e.g., "Music to Read By," "Music to Help You Sleep," and a 2 min. 52 sec. orchestral condensation of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata for the disk-jockey trade. Such popularizations, some serious musicians feel, kill not only the pain but the music...
...Dancer goes to sleep. For four hours, he snoozes in his stall, standing head to corner, his rear legs slightly crossed. "He can tell every time when it's a race day," says Winfrey, "but it doesn't bother him a bit. He's the coolest horse I've ever seen...
Wear & Tear. In San Antonio, held on suspicion of robbery, Robert Middleton asked officials to transfer him from the city jail to the county jail, complained that he was living in unsanitary conditions, had to eat poor food, at night could not sleep because of the noise made by newly jailed drunks...