Word: slept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, the midnight taper burned late, often and with great regularity. Young John Wesley, though "gay and sprightly, with a turn for wit and humor," was imbued with a deep purpose, and to accomplish it he systematized his living, and his friends' living, most strictly. They slept, ate, studied and discussed their aims on a time schedule so business-like that it drew upon them the ridicule of their irresponsible fellow Lincolnians. "Bible Bigots," they were called, "The Holy Club," and, for their ordered habits, "Methodists...
...admitting Germany (TIME, March 29), Sir Austen Chamberlain, the erstwhile "hero of Locarno" (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.), returned to hear the jibe that "he strangled the Locarno peace dove with his own hands."* Cheerlessly Sir Austen sought his home. Two days' rest were vouchsafed to him. He slept, thumbed the recently published Intimate Papers of Colonel House for relaxation, and drafted with a vitriolic pen his "speech of accounting" to the House of Commons...
Sleeper. As Sir Austen Chamberlain rumbled toward the Gare du Nord, Paris, on his way to Geneva, a man was observed asleep in a motor car parked near the Nord station. A tired smile faintly curved his lips as he slept and a cigaret burned ever nearer his finger tips...
...bidders went home and slept and came back again through a raging snowstorm. Partridge of London, pressed closely by Henry Symons, Manhattan dealer, appeared to have no bottom to his purse. Was it truly the King's gold that he was spending? Dealers thought not, but the rumor persisted. S. D. Bowers, a collector, bought two satinwood commodes for $11,600. On the third day Mr. Partridge again paid the highest price?$16,000?for a pair of Adam bookcases, heirlooms of the Chesterfield family. English and American bidders worked against each other as if the sale had been...
...strong competition for the only three other banks then existing in Manhattan. Its first building was the three-story, onetime home of Alexander Hamilton. Customers approached the counting room over a front lawn, on which thrifty first President John Slidell kept tethered his family cow. He slept in a room above the vault as a deterrent to marauders...