Word: slept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh, one Joseph Shine slept beside Ernestine Shine (his wife), dreaming of strange delights. Mrs. Shine began to toss fretfully. Into his sleep-swollen brain filtered the Shine baby's sobs, "WAAAH! Ugh, ugh, ugh." Cursing, Mr. Shine arose from his slumbers, stumbled to the crib, picked up the child (aged 1), handled it so roughly he broke...
Upon these hotels workmen were plastering furiously last week, tacking shingles like a swarm of mad woodpeckers. Some two score homes stood finished, furnished and occupied; but civil servants mostly slept at hotels after their 429-mile trip from Melbourne. Like barnyard fowls unused to migrating, which have suddenly been shooed from one coop into another, the employes of the Commonwealth of Australia were cackling many a minor protest last week; but the approach of a royal personage stilled all complaints...
...Cleveland Jim Yee, of the On Leongs, was riddled with gunfire as he slept in his laundry basement...
...snoozing legislators had doubtless been dreaming about what all the West and Southwest has eaten, drunk and slept the past fortnight-GOLD. The rush and scrabble for some of the $78,000 lode struck lately at Weepah, down near the slanting California lino (TIME, March 21), continued last week to swell and assume bright color. Blizzards and gales that swept Weepah tenters down the canon, did not cool the yellow metal fever. Nearby Tonopah, base camp for the skirmishers, buzzed with brokers, show girls, sour-doughs, eager tourists. Buying and selling of mine shares was fast and furious...
...Occidental press was poorly represented, and only recently* has the picturesque story of the Congress come to light. It sat in a great tent of hand-woven khaddar, at Gauhati, in remote Upper India. Great palms and forest trees canopied the Congress tent, the 5,000 delegates and spectators slept in the open or in bamboo huts along the shores of the broad Brahmaputra dotted with tiny islands. The delegates have no official status, but theirs is a voice that speaks for India; vast, three times more populous than the U. S., downtrodden, inarticulate...