Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With fortitude I witnessed the shortening of streamers on flat hats and even the elimination of the grommet which made it a flat hat; the reefing in of bell bottom trousers, issuance of pajamas to sleep in, substitution of "right rudder" for "port your helm," substitution of "hostess houses" for the places we used to frequent ashore...
Presidential Plot. The Reno escapades form the opening salvo in the drumfire of bandit tales Authors Horan and Swiggett have let loose in their history of Pinkerton's National ("We Never Sleep") Detective Agency. The Pinkerton Story reads too much like a collection of Sunday-supplement pieces, but the raw material survives anything writers...
...night, after long prayer, Ste. Cunegonde, wife of Henry II, emperor of Germany, fell asleep and was lifted into bed. Her reader fell asleep soon afterward and, dropping her candle, set fire to the palliasse and bedclothes. The empress and her reader were roused from sleep by the noise and heat of the fire, and making the Sign of the Cross, the fire instantly dropped out. Although the empress was lying on a bed blazing with fire, and the flames burnt fiercely all around her, yet her night clothes were not touched, nor did she suffer any injury whatever...
...Filipino cases are different, Dr. Majoska argued: all died in their sleep. Moreover, Dr. Majoska did not believe that the 25 findings of pancreatitis explained the deaths, because there were 18 of the 43 cases, similar in all other respects, without...
...health. Next morning he was found dead, and there was not a mark of violence upon him. Last week the Honolulu coroner's physician, Dr. Alvin V. Majoska, listed Tutop as the 43rd in a baffling succession of healthy young adults, all Filipinos, who have died in their sleep in the last six years for no discoverable reason...