Word: slept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three newly elected deputies died from the effects of their strenuous election campaign. One M. Marcel de Larbre, physical culture expert, estimated that the average candidate covered 650 miles, delivered 60 speeches, slept 120 hours during the 20-day campaign...
...troubled to visit it. And when the war out most of the communications, and only the picturesque accounts of the war reporters were forth-coming, the generally lurid impression was not modified. One was taught in school that Russia was composed of a very large number of peasants who slept on the stove and consumed a uniquely potent stimulant called vodka, guaranteed to baffle the coldest weather and the Czar, a glorious individual, at whose slightest whim the whole aggregation of peasants would gladly cast itself upon the bayonets of an enemy...
...Premier of Quebec (L. A. Taschereau) : "In Montreal, I engaged a hotel room. While I slept, some one entered, took $1,200 from my trousers, escaped...
...last she plucked up courage to go to Chicago -and for a little while she seemed to have conquered the family curse (she was intermittently employed at some rather useless work, but still, employed)-the right young man reappeared just when he should-and then her brother, Herbie, having slept himself out of the Marine Corps, got sluggishly involved in an impossible intrigue - the family fortunes failed-all there was for Dagmar to do was to marry a middle-aged bear for money to take care of her whole ineffective family-and so she did. A pleasant and amusing novel...
Accordingly they rushed to the address and were met by an indignant landlady who announced that she had found the animal a week ago Sunday teasing her cat in the back yard. In the mean time he had torn up a $25 pocketbook, a linoleum rug, and had slept in the puffed rice. The board she said would...