Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep), master of the hard-guy school of crime fiction, openly sneered (in the Saturday Review of Literature) at those who prefer the too-too refined type of whodunit ("That charming Mrs. Jones-whoever would have thought she would cut off her husband's head with a meat saw? And such a handsome...
Born. To Mickey Rooney, 29, perennial cinemadolescent and Starlet Martha Vickers (The Big Sleep), 25; their first child, Rooney 's third (two boys by an earlier marriage), a son. Name: Ted Michael. Weight...
Thanks, Sir, cried I, 'tis very fine, But where d'ye sleep and where d'ye dine...
...eulogies for blue jays fried in butter: "The best meat I ever had in the hills." He was in a more philosophical mood the day he stood on top of Darling Mountain and felt "a challenge to explore each ridge and valley, to climb each snow-capped peak, to sleep in each high basin, to sample the berries and fish and all the other rich produce of the wilderness...
...compared with that served in such houses as Adams and Dunster, we in Leverett have other advantages. Usually one can arise leisurely around 9:00, shower, shave, read the paper, or what have you and still get into the dining hall for breakfast around 9:20. And if you sleep even later, and present yourself at the door with a warm smile you can be served up till 9:30. On Sundays many of us at the "Hutch" do not eat breakfast until shortly before...