Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women reporters, Author-Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner (a Kinsey interviewee) and a scattering of interested males at a Women's National Press Club luncheon in Washington. Ordinarily a solemn man, Kinsey proved to be an old tease when the girls got going on questions. What age group prefers sleeping in the nude? asked a woman from Woman's Wear Daily. Kinsey restated the question to his own liking -"Should the manufacturers of clothes be seriously disturbed by nude sleeping?" -then replied that, mostly, it is women with higher educations who sleep in the raw. The mother...
Eyuboglu works best between midnight and 3 a.m.-"almost painting in my sleep." Lately he has busied himself with a variety of mediums: temperas, mosaics, and wood blocks for printing curtains and handkerchiefs. "The possibilities are limitless," he murmurs, absently dabbling a design in his coffee saucer. Business people are beginning to see the possibilities in Eyuboglu himself; negotiations are under way for a show of his art in Philadelphia, and the new Hilton Hotel being built in Istanbul will be decorated with Eyuboglu curtains...
...victory was too much to ask from a man of Mulloy's years, was it also too big an order for young Rosewall and Hoad? The semifinals seemed to produce a firm answer. In top physical shape, thanks to Coach Harry Hopman's strict meat-and-sleep training rules, the Australians nonetheless sometimes seemed mentally over-wound, as if their play had become work. Facing powerful Lew Hoad, whose service is one of the fastest in amateur tennis, Vic Seixas showed the same flair for court tactics he demonstrated this year at Wimbledon. It was a net-rushing...
...show's first week half of the 27 paintings and drawings had been sold. Back in Calcutta, Jamini Roy would take the news with equanimity. Says he: "All I really need in life is a simple earthen pot for food and a straw mat to sleep on. They are the only real things in life...
...hour before their first-night curtain, they slipped downstairs, took a westbound train, and, says Nora, whose English made her the family spokesman, "Whisst, we come out." Last week, curled up on a couch in their London apartment, Nora recalled that for two nights afterward, "I didn't sleep because I was thinking of mother, home, family. It's a very big problem. But freedom is better...