Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have not yet figured what to use for money.' '' Average earned income in 1934 of the 541 members who reported was $4,445. One affluent member of 1911 paid an income tax on $125,000 a year. Another reported himself "a tramp," added, "I have not slept in a bed for five years." Of 16 men even their families knew nothing. Author Tunis concludes that most of the 88 who failed to respond to letters, telegrams and telephone calls are probably "failures," that, taken together with the failures who did answer, about one-eighth of his classmates...
Died. Frederick Fillmore French, 52, Manhattan builder (Tudor City, Knickerbocker Village); of angina pectoris; in Pawling, N. Y. An admirer of the late Thomas Edison, he worked late, slept little, never drank or attended the theatre, assigned his staff daily readings in Elbert Hubbard...
...individual and no organization should meet this problem from the point of view of politics. I am not concerned about where the credit goes in the solution of the problem of our drought just so we meet it in a humane, constructive, sensible way." That night Nominee Landon slept in the Chicago railroad yards while the David Livingstone was shunted from one carrier to another...
Last week, while working on a farm, Vito Geneva was again stung by bees in the armpit. He went home, entertained friends, slept soundly, rose in the morning, collapsed. His doctor called for an oxygen tent, treated him for shock for five hours. Then Vito Geneva died...
...punished with a fine of 10 lira (80?) was suspended for the night. After filing in a long sacred procession through the Church of Il Redentore, some 10,000 Venetian youths and maidens of the rabble rowed out to the Lido in the year's greatest gondola fleet, slept on the beach under the moon, returned to Venice next morning. To bambini born of this Hymen Harvest, mellow Venetians give the name "Moon Children...