Word: slept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidency. In the South he and others harvested a fat crop of Negro delegates and, according to G. O. P. custom, took them on up to the convention at Chicago, all expenses paid, to vote for Wood. Quartered at the Vincennes Hotel, these black Republicans ate, drank and slept up $3,850 worth of hospitality. Only $1,500 was ever paid on their account by General Wood's unsuccessful managers...
Among the deepest of the sleepers last week, was the chairman of a great oil company who slept the sleep of the just, weary from his pharmaceutical labors in the dispensary of the Federal jail in Washington, D. C. Not only the cloistered seclusion of prison walls but trust in his company's progress protected his rest. For, while Harry F. Sinclair slept and while he worked, plans were going forward for enlarging his company's outlets...
...Kutais we were arrested as British spies for taking photographs and spent two hours in jail. That night we slept on the floor of a schoolhouse. We only had five blankets. Mabel had one, the Armenian guide had one, and I had three. It was hard on Mabel...
First Day. Lady Drummond Hay rose first the next morning and went shouting through the passageways: "I was first up of all. I'm hungry. You'd better get up or you'll miss breakfast." Passengers Leeds, Richards, paid no heed, slept until luncheon. Sir Hubert Wilkins, always taciturn, apologized for his large breakfast appetite, settled down to read a book...
...airplane swooped down to the field. Out stepped Edward of Wales. Delighted at his presence, no Scout cared that he, Chief Scout of Wales, slept that night in a tent with pillow and mattressed bed, lavatory, boarded flooring...