Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reelection, newshawks in Texas remembered that the Vice President was also winning. Reaching for their telephones, they called the Garner home in Uvalde. "I'm sorry," answered the operator, "but they have stopped answering the telephone." In the midst of the greatest landslide since 1820, John Nance Garner slept as usual...
Mark Hopkins was a big, serious-minded farm boy when he went to Willams from nearby Stockbridge in 1822. After graduation he tried his hand at tutoring before entering the Berkshire Medical College in Pittsfield. Starting out as a physician in New York, he slept in his Greenwich Village office on a $25 sofabed which he described in letters home as a "really genteel article of furniture." Year later he was eager to accept a call back to Williams to teach moral philosophy and rhetoric. With anatomy and physiology classes as well, he decided that he must have a manikin...
...proud possessor of the title of "Comendador de la Real Orden de Isabel la Católica" conferred upon him by Spain, paid no attention whatever last week when he received an anonymous letter warning him that Manila would burn the following night. The police went to bed and slept as hard as usual. Suddenly in the early hours of the morning there was an explosion. Then another and another. Just how many bombs went off nobody knew. Five or six unexploded bombs were discovered. One bomb wrecked part of a hotel. Another blew up the chief water-main serving...
...honor of buying the first $1.10 seat, one Tony Albano planted himself at the head of the line 12 days before the ticket window opened, slept in a swivel chair, ate food brought to him by a colored friend with whom he ungraciously refused to be photographed. To reporters he proudly announced that he had been fourth in line in 1933, that he would not sell his place for $50, that he was an unemployed truck driver who had been living on $60-a-month relief for three years and that, while waiting, he had been told that Mrs. Tony...
Harry Price is England's foremost investigator of psychic phenomena. For 30 years he has tracked down alleged miracles at home and abroad, slept in "haunted" houses, uncovered the frauds of tricksters. Having inherited money from his family, he spends about $5,000 yearly on his researches. He has acquired 14,000 volumes, some of them rare, on every phase of his hobby from talking animals to stage wizardry. He started doing magic tricks at the age of 8, published a psychic play called The Sceptic at 17. In 1925 he founded and became director of the National Laboratory...