Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world last week, man's fey behavior was undoubtedly affecting other members of the animal kingdom. In Honolulu, pearl fishermen made plans to dope stubborn oysters into yielding up their precious pearls, by a drug said by its sponsor to resemble that used by obstetricians in inducing "twilight sleep." In Thaxted, Essex, a theatrical scene painter unveiled a gasoline-powered mechanical elephant that walked at 28 m.p.h., flapped its ears, carried eight passengers, a license plate and a taillight...
Heroine Gene Tierney is married to a cracker jack psychiatrist (Richard Conte), who never suspects that she is a kleptomaniac who can't sleep. Fearful of losing his high opinion, she goes for help to an unctuous hypnotist (José Ferrer). One night, while Svengali Ferrer is off setting up an alibi by having his gall bladder out, she wakes out of a trance to find herself a first-class murder suspect...
...female as a hyperthyroid tiger. Attorney Russell, as stalwart as the bottom man in a tumbling act, is efficient at everything, while Lawyer Cummings gets knocked out twice (once by Rosalind), skis on his face, wears a kimono and does the cooking. Typical scene: Cummings skittishly trying to sleep alongside a wet Saint Bernard...
...long walk from Dunster or Eliot House to Lamont at four in the morning. More undergraduates than ever are taking the walk this week, for the 75-cent tariff imposed by library officialdom on books returned late puts a high premium on mid-morning sleep...
...takes a book out of the library at closing time and studies until the not-so-small hours--as most have to do now--he can't get up for the nine o'clock check-in and still get his sleep. The Library might well put book boxes in all the Houses where people could leave volumes to be picked up by messengers in the morning...