Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mencken reminisces fondly over "a life that has never been matched on earth for romance": his lot as a young Baltimore newsman at the turn of the century, hungering for assignments, often working all night, happily going three days without sleep to cover the Baltimore fire of 1904. "You could no more have a 40-hour week for a good newspaper reporter," says Mencken, "than you could for an archbishop." Those were the days "when an oldtime ice-wagon-driver city editor might come down in the morning with a hangover and fire a man simply because...
...slobs in question are the sons of some middle-class families in a small city in Italy. In body they are full-grown males, but at heart they are just big bambini. Though finished with school, they cannot quite bring themselves to take jobs. Supported by indulgent families, they sleep till noon, spend the rest of the day at the poolroom or on the beach, talking about girls they seldom get or wishing they were somewhere far away. Sometimes, there is nothing to do but mambo along the sidewalk, or just grow sideburns. At night they get drunk on money...
...Army, I drank as much as I liked, and I frequently drank steadily for nine or ten hours at a time ... I believe I have learned a lot while I have been drinking with friends, just as most of us may say we have learned a lot in sleep. There is, however, a recognizable limit to what may be learned by means of drinking." Furthermore, he adds, "I squandered a great deal of money that I earned as a writer and I lost a lot of it gambling." As a result, "I am head over heels in debt. I expect...
...board. He drew the design of a valve with two fins that opened and shut like the gates of a canal lock. But what to make it of? Holter began a frantic search for a suitable material. He worked evenings and weekends, got only three or four hours' sleep a night. The valve had to be durable. It must be inert, so as not to corrode or cause reactions in the blood. While Holter worked, surgeons operated again, put in a temporary tube in the hope of keeping his son alive until Holter could find his material. Finally Holter...
...sleep, sprawl in her bunk, and talk about her husband: how tender he was, how he spread flowers around their...