Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong foods is gone. I don't have to worry about diets." Mrs. Beatrice Barnett dropped 16 Ibs. in two weeks, boasted: "I've lost absolutely all taste for sweets and in-between snacks. It's helped my bronchial asthma too, and I sleep nights...
...gobbled up the odd jobs, whereas regular College students have seized most of the openings listed in the book labeled: "Full-time and Regular Part-time--Catch As Catch Can." The office has assigned drivers to the Checker Cab Company, bartenders to the Hotel Commander, and a man "to sleep on a boat...
...week the late, long-forgotten Tobey achieved new fame. Moscow Radio Commentator Berko told listeners about "the little dog Tobey who lives in a very beautiful, richly decorated house, built by the best architects in the country . . . His mistress, a mad American woman, left it $75 million . . . The dog sleeps on a golden bed. It is attended by a staff of 45 servants and six lawyers." Moral for Moscow: "While the millionaire dog lives in a beautiful private house, the children of the workers, dressed in tatters, roam the streets begging for a piece of bread. Like stray dogs, they...
...operator in the Marconi wireless station, atop John Wanamaker's Manhattan store, on the night of April 14, 1912, when he picked up a message from the S.S. Titanic: "Ran into iceberg. Sinking fast." For three days & nights, the nation waited breathlessly while Sarnoff, going without sleep, provided its only news of the disaster and survivors. President Taft ordered all other stations off the air to enable Operator Sarnoff to catch the messages...
...described in My Life and Hard Times, a book which many Thurberites consider his most durable, masterpiece. * Sometimes it got a little overwhelming for Charley Thurber. In Jim's story, The Night the Bed Fell, occurs the sentence, "It happened, then, that my father had decided to sleep in the attic ... to be away where he could think...