Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell band members leave Ithaca at 7:15 a.m. this morning in four busses. They hope to arrive at Boston's Hotel Brunswick at 7 p.m., getting a good night's sleep before their crepuscular Yard sortie...
Republicans could hardly sleep at night for worrying about the latest rumor buzzing around Washington. The rumor: that the President would go on the air just before the elections to lay down the law on U.S. mobilization. The speech, so the story went, would go far beyond the "work harder" generalities of Harry Truman's recent Korean war pep talks and spell out the specific controls and sacrifices necessary to put the U.S. on an adequate defense footing...
...gram of digitalis instead of one grain. . . or a merchant who cannot find the goods his customers want"). And if he lectures in the stumbling, halting manner of a Stanley Baldwin, he runs the risk of having the same effect: "Half an hour of [it] put everybody to sleep. Several years of it put Britain to sleep...
...career to edit a San Francisco newspaper, and became a Republican-hating Democrat. Frost remembers his father as "a wild man" who gave him many a whipping, remembers eating many of his lunches in saloons while his father talked politics at the bar. Young Robert was nervous, could not sleep, suffered from biliousness and scrofula, was more often out of school than in. "I wasn't considered a very good bet," he says...
Whodunit Author John Dickson Carr (alias Carter Dickson), master of the murder in a locked room, took deadly aim at Whodunit Writer Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler, who specializes in hard-boiled detectives and publicly hoots at his clue-scattering colleagues (TIME, April 24). In a New York Times review of Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, Carr wrote: "If, to some restraint, he could add the fatigue of construction and clues . . . then one day he may write a good novel...