Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Janet E. Thomas, whose letter [March 18] got under my skin: Did you ever stop to think that the trouble lies with the guy you married, who entertains you by dropping off to sleep every night, and not by the lack of concerts, theaters and dances in Baltimore, your "lousy burg...
Elizabethan Barbecue. In the Elysée Palace alone, 263 workmen were getting things ready for Elizabeth and her husband. First it was decided that they should sleep in Napoleon Bonaparte's huge bronze and mahogany bed; then, perhaps because of Napoleon's hatred of England, the idea was abandoned. Landscape gardeners lined the Avenue de l'Ópéra with palm trees and changed its name for the occasion to Boulevard Méditerranéen. The managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward...
...misinterpretation or the printer who mixed Ben-Gurion and the deity in your opening quotation ["Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." -Psalms...
...ardent, inexperienced young men," sprawled casually around on the decaying furniture, the $500 seemed a trifle exorbitant, but, the plaintiff was of another mind, and a highly legalistic one. He had 32 pages of services rendered neatly itemized, and a few off-hand comments about his infirm grandmother, whose sleep had been disturbed...
Aside from his grandmother losing her rest, the now retired counsel, who termned himself an "overindulgent citizen," lost some sleep of his own. In underworldly dealings in behalf of the paper, he had solicited funds avidly. He quoted some of these dealings; in particular, the approach used toward one well-endowed Republican: "Lippy, I need some money." This technique had kept the publication from insolvency, but only through the efforts of counsel...