Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books and papers Gonzalez paced endlessly, munching raisins, sipping water, drawing heavily on his own experiences as a member of a minority group. He told of being barred from a café table because he was a Mexican. "The Irish have a saying, 'It's easy to sleep on another man's wounds.' Well, what's the difference,? Mexican, Negro, what have you? The assault on the inward dignity of man, which our society protects, has been made." And this, he said, is an assault on the very idea of America, which "began...
...Grischa" Piatigorsky is currently busy writing his autobiography, which traces his remarkable career from his boyhood in the Ukraine to his arrival in the U.S. in 1929. A high point of the reminiscences comes with the time Piatigorsky was a homeless young refugee in Berlin and often had to sleep on park benches; once, seeking dry shelter for the night, he slipped into an empty concert hall and out of his rain-drenched clothes, but found himself unable to sleep and spent the time till morning playing his cello nude on the stage. He has also written a novel that...
Often Datini sat up day and night, hardly pausing to eat or sleep, tirelessly writing reprimands to his partners, agents and factors throughout Europe, begging them to act prudently, to "trust no man." Always, just as today, the last straw came in the form of taxation: "I shall see torn from me in my old age all that God has lent me . . . I have reached such a point that methinks, if a man stabbed me, no blood would issue forth...
...order. The second division teams should give the leaders a good deal of trouble, but won't be too much in the running. Philadelphia will take fifth, New York sixth, Pittsburgh, seventh, and Chicago will wind up in the cellar again." With that, he yawned and went back to sleep, leaving us to ponder his reasoning...
...syndicate, for public exhibition. In the early igih century Josiah Henry Wilkinson picked it up at the bargain price of ?100. It eventually came down through the family to the canon, who kept it at the foot of his bed, in a box on which his cat used to sleep, and showed the relic off to visitors as an effective conversation piece...