Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...17th. Slept but troubled at my stomach all the last part of the night, and yet I know not why 'less it be from sleeping so far up in the air (I being on the top floor of the Chrysler Building) for I have heard tell of persons in skyscrapers getting sick from the swaying of the building; but I would not swear this was my case for also now I remember I did eat a lobster for dinner: Therefore up, and soon comes----and I to apologize for being caught breechless but he did not mind and took...
...having slept for two years, Calcutta's insomniac rich merchant Rai Bahadur Ramjidas Bajoria, 65, advertised extensively that to anyone who can restore him to normal sleeping powers he would...
...sure that any one of these was the man, Brand drank harder, slept less, went on brooding. Though he despised the sensitive artistic type, the knowledge that these men had all been Christina's friends forced him into their company. By the time his nearly-crazy suspicions had convinced him that his beloved wife had been promiscuous, incestuous and a Lesbian, it was only natural that he should take some desperate way out. But readers not in Brand's pinching boots will not jump so far or so readily to conclusions as he, may indeed guess as early...
...took just seven hours for Prosecutor Knight to restate his case. It did not differ from the one his father, as a State Supreme Court Justice, had previously upheld in vain. Hard-faced Victoria Price who, it was charged, had slept with hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" the night before the alleged crime, told for the eighth time in public how Patterson and the other Negroes had chased off her white "boyfriends" and raped her in the freight car-a tale long since repudiated by Ruby Bates, the other alleged victim of the attack. When the State rested...
...caravan trundled as far as Kansas City. Day later came La Junta, Colo. Then the trucks angled South, climbed over the steep Raton Pass into New Mexico, headed out over the barren Southwest. Rolling drearily along at an average of 22 m.p.h., the drivers worked in six-hour shifts, slept six hours in the small trailer. Only stops were for food, gas & oil, examination of permits at each state line. Ten hours were lost in such formalities. So smoothly did everything go that the caravan rolled into Los Angeles in four and a half days, beat the best railroad freight...