Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seconds the $369 mechanical sofa whirred out into a standard-size double bed. "It does everything for you," bragged the salesman, "except put you to sleep...
...most popular objections to lifting the eleven o'clock deadline have been academic and moral. Roommates, the argument goes, would be irresistably drawn from the House libraries to their rooms and would be placed under intolerable psychological strain, seeking culture or sleep with only one wall separating them from their roommate's date...
...Late Nights. Watson's system was straightforward. While he was boss, his players would eat, sleep, talk and think hockey. Did some of the men feel smug because they had reported to camp at their best playing weight? They got the same treatment as the boys who had run to fat over the soft summer months; they were told to take off a few pounds just to keep them concentrating on their diet. Did they think they were sending those trunks of fancy clothes to the Times Square hotels where they had lived it up during other seasons? "Every...
...Dorrit in Little Dorrit, the chronic hypomania of the stranger who made advances to Mrs. Nickleby over the garden wall in Nicholas Nickleby. In at least one instance Dickens got the jump on the medical profession: the first recorded instance of the association of narcolepsy (uncontrollable desire to sleep) with obesity occurs in the fat boy of Pickwick Papers...
Jerry is introduced as a boy who got that way by reading horror comics. The idea may cause a serious drop in circulation for the screech sheets, but in the picture it brings a wacky rise in Dean Martin's fortunes. Jerry talks in his sleep, and what he reads all day he dreams all night-mostly about Zuba, a girl with three eyes, and something called Vincent the Vulture. Dean, a commercial artist, makes illustrations of Jerry's somnolo-quies, and sells them to a well-known pulp publisher (Eddie Mayehoff) for buckets of blood money, which...