Word: slept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Traveling by special train, yet with studied informality, Lord and Lady Willingdon arranged to receive, when they reached Vancouver last week, merely a simple greeting from Mayor Louis Taylor instead of an expensive formal welcome. Further to spare Vancouver all expense, they slept each night aboard their train...
...quirk of fate, the commander of the barracks, General Eleazar Lopez Contreras, had slept poorly and was up at an unusually early hour. . . . In the nick of time, just before the revolted battalion rushed up, General Contreras succeeded in organizing a defense to the barracks. Bullets spotted for two hours. . . . The Gomez...
When they reached India, they slept in a low dirty town: a wind, as hot and sticky as a conjurer's hand, passed slowly in the air. After breakfast, they flew away...
...Greenly Island, in bleak Belle Isle Straits, southern Labrador, the population of 14 slept a long night's worth...
...orchestra trouped around Spain, slept in towns, hamlets & villages. Everywhere sprang up a latent desire for music, and musical organizations flourished...