Word: slept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires. "Adios" he cried. "Buen Viaje!" A nine-hour run down the river Plata took them to Montevideo, Uruguay harbor-capital. There lay the U.S.S. Utah ready to carry Goodwill to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and home. But not before the Hoovers should have slept a night in Uruguay and dined with President Juan Campisteguy...
...charged that he had evaded Neptune's court when he crossed the Equator two years ago; also, that he had sunburned the tonsils of his illustrious father's se'" -: tary with a reading glass while the secretary (George Akerson) slept on deck. First he had to lie in state, lily in hand, while the band played a dirge and newsmen who had boasted about having dress clothes with them paraded in cutaways and silk toppers. Then, neck and hands in stocks, he was led before the judges (his parents) and made to kiss the Royal Baby...
Capitalism, the profit system, bothers Mr. Young a good deal. He thinks society should be communal, that work should be held noble and money-getting base. These ideas, and his trial (at which he slept) for sedition with other Masses editors during the War, and his eccentricities, such as lying nakedly asprawl on his hill for sunbaths, make his Connecticut neighbors view "that c'toonist" with some alarm. They are reassured, though somewhat puzzled by his deep vein of quizzical, kindly humor. His life has been most unconventional, they feel, but they know it has been rich and gentle...
...privilege" last summer of my brother and myself while sojourning in Yellowstone National Park (waiting for a motorcycle repair part) to spend a night in the horse stable of Old Faithful Camp. Not accustomed to such lodging (though the hay was comfortable enough) we slept little, and had a good opportunity to observe the nocturnal habits of the six horses tied to the opposite side of the manger. For the first hour or two they munched noisily on hay. Tiring of this, they would bite each other on the neck in a friendly way, or would spray us violently through...
...Caspar Hauser, 17, stumbling alone into Nürnberg, stimulated general curiosity because he could neither walk nor talk better than a child of two. He could remember that he had always lived in darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically with a toy horse. This data formed the basis of a famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth...