Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fundamental quality of the Wellesley girl's life is illustrated by one of the hints offered in the yellow introductory booklet. "Get as much sleep as you can," it suggests. "Then come weekend time you'll be gay and sparkling straight through." Few and far between are weekday dates at Wellesley, except for studying. There are, however, only two special study rooms available for girls and their dates in the recreation building. These are crowded, but only with juniors and seniors. And although girls can invite boys to any meal they desire, most of the guests only come for Sunday...
Beginning in Darkness. Just a few days before Joe left for Kansas City to attend the annual Future Farmers' convention, the Chromaster clock sounded its alarm at 4:30 a.m. in his bedroom at home. Shocked to wakefulness after eight hours of sleep, Joe swung out his bare feet and reached for the mound of khaki clothes on the linoleum floor. The shirt, clammy from three days' accumulated sweat, clung dankly to him. The pants, crusted with dirt and splotched with tractor grease, slipped on over the cotton print shorts in which he had slept. The three-hook...
...were old enough to go on grass. Already, Joe's hearty appetite for cold cash was apparent: he even made a tidy profit out of his habit of sucking his thumb. For months, both his mother and grandmother put dimes under his pillow every time he went to sleep without his thumb in his mouth. Finally grandmother Carver said: "Joe, this has gone far enough. We'll just have to stop giving you money." Replied Joe: "If you do, I'll keep right on sucking my thumb." And so he did, until he was in the second...
...have a sound sleep...
...same page with this inspired thought, a poor playwright like Shakespeare, who can only say something about "Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care," must suffer by comparison. When you come right down to it, it was very generous of Mr. Prochnow to give as much space as he did in his book to people like Shakespeare, Shaw, Oscar Wild, Rochcfoucaulde, and so forth...