Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he got the sleep out of his eyes, Rodney was soon busy dialing the toy telephone that Santa gave him. He was looking better than ever, for he is filling out nicely and no longer needs a cap or bandage to cover his head. Surgeons have made his head more normal in appearance. Rodney's speech is improving (he soon addressed Santa as "Caus"), and he is expected to be walking soon...
Says Grandma: "I used to wrap my hands up in scarves and lay them on a chair beside the bed. at night. I couldn't sleep on account of the aching, just like a toothache. Then, one night I got desperate, so I got up and hunted the doctor book, the 'Family Adviser, Philosophy of Diseases.' The best recipe was:3 cups of sweet milk every day, and from 3 to 5 drops of turpentine in it. I took it for about three months, and all of a sudden there were no pains any more...
...Estelle's life. Philosophically, Estelle decided: "He is he, and I am I." Next morning she took a plane to Florida. She did not tell Jack that she was leaving, because Jack, at his own hotel, had left word that he was very tired and wanted to sleep until 10 o'clock...
...every morning, opens his windows, prays, and takes a cold shower. He shaves with an electric razor. While he shaves, a goldfinch named Gretel-one of five small pet birds he keeps-perches on his arm as it moves with the razor.* Until he goes to sleep in his simple brass bed between 12 and 2 a.m., Gretel is his only entertainment. He rarely listens any more to the records from his fine collection (favorites: Bach, Brahms, Wagner), and he has given up poetry and the classics (favorite: Virgil) for the lives of the saints. During his hour...
...means of destroying inhibitions. "It's very expensive,'' a gentleman complained to her. "It takes a lot of whisky to reduce a woman to the right degree of drunkenness, and if the dose is too strong she's no longer fit for anything but sleep...