Word: slept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Talman in Janesville, Wis.) in which they had attempted to sleep. Mr. Hanks often said: "That long, gaunt man was so nervous that he twitched and tossed and kicked and snored until, in desperation, I went out into the hall and made a bed on the floor, where I slept the rest of the night...
...inhabited with Anne Boleyn until he tired of both. With the burning of the great Palace of Whitehall, the sovereigns of England from William III to George IV maintained there the Court of St. James's, still a synonym for the Court of Britain. There Charles I slept out the night before his execution; there the ill-starred Marie de Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France, found a refuge; there George III was attacked by a mad woman. In 1736 a wing was added for Frederick, Prince of Wales, later driven from court. This, having later become...
...Walter N. Koelz, ichthyologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, the Naturalist of the expedition, reported a collection of specimens so large that he had filled even his bunk with them and slept in the hold. Included were birds and animals not yet named. Jacob Gayer, staff photographer of the National Geographic Society, had over 1,000 colored pictures of wild life...
...entrance became a triumph! Whenever the royal carriage halted, the people assembled and danced their native folk dance, the kole. Delighted peasants capered and cried out that the good old times had come again. That night Alexander and Marie slept tranquilly in the royal castle, uninhabited since the exile of the Petrovich dynasty. A glimmer of rejoicing and good will had lifted the lowering cloud of the Balkans for an instant...
That night M. Caillaux slept well, in the morning sailed for France and the next evening his accomplishment was approved by the French Cabinet...