Word: slept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick when he writes,--"Hard squeaking sounds grew out of the distance. A door clanged metallically and an indistinct voice shouted 'Zzzzzzz-- Hall! -- -- -- Had he slept twenty years to find a new city grown up on the brown stone ashes of the old Borough." Apart from the dream introduction, there is nothing in his story of crooks, policemen, and the misguided poor, which could not appear fittingly in the more widely read periodicals of the country...
After 6 a. m. Senator Capper of Kansas who had slept through many a telephone jangle, came in and was promptly deemed physical ly fit enough to succeed frazzled Senator Moses of New Hampshire in the Presiding Officer's chair. Vice President Dawes had left at 10 p. m. and Mr. Moses had done the heavy night work. Early in the morning Mr. Dawes returned. . . . At last, a quorum was present. But the filibusterers* kept the floor, allowed no one to move a vote on the Boulder Dam bill. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, co-author of the bill...
Crawford Allen, Mississippi Negro, lay sick abed in his shanty just across the Louisiana line. It was night and his wife Anna slept deeply beside him. Nearby slept his three pickaninnies, Teelie, Lewis, Myra. None of the Aliens had any clothes on; it was August...
...services of education in various English universities, explained that in England the university and its college are entirely different in their functions, finances and derivation. The college of an English university, such as Christ's College at Oxford, was originally a sort of club, where students ate and slept. In the course of time teachers became associated with the various colleges, and a separate organization developed. Since these teachers, or dons did not give regular courses or lectures, the tutorial system developed...
Evacuation. All British women and children in Hankow were rushed aboard warships in the harbor, and with them went 50 U. S women and children. The 150 Britons who were left slept together that night in a warehouse...