Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House grounds merely because he had given them authority to make modest alterations in the White House offices during his absence. When he returned there was nothing left standing save three of those offices' outer walls, and during his first night in the White House he slept to the tattoo of pneumatic drills demolishing one of the remaining walls. His desk was set in the Oval Room, where Abraham Lincoln's once stood. There he settled down to attack the great problem he had seen with his own eyes, the grim reality of Drought...
Flames roared through the Great Ballroom and the bedchambers in which slept Edward of Wales on his last visit (TIME, Nov. 28. 1932). "Come on, boys!" roared the Fire Chief. "Carry out what you can before the roof goes!" As firemen, villagers and servants darted through the smoke, lugging Abercorn's collection piece by piece to safety, Belfast police ringed the Castle to guard the Governor's treasures. Out came a $50,000 Van Dyck. Attempting to rescue a huge tapestry two strapping yokels got tangled in their prize and rolled spluttering out the front door. A dauntless parlor maid...
Visiting an R. O. T. C. camp at Baltimore's Fort Meade, Assistant Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring slept in a squad tent on an army cot canopied with mosquito netting. Said he: "I like to sleep out in the open again. When I was Governor of Kansas I'd always sleep in a tent while visiting the National Guard regiments...
That night she and her fellow wanderers slept in Madison, Ind., next night in the Blackstone at Chicago. There she delivered a Simmons Bed broadcast, lunched with Rufus Dawes & wife, went to the Fair, smiled her broadest at newshawks when she told them: "Please don't feel badly if I have to evade you, because that's what I'm going to do from now on. This is not an official visit. When I'm with the President it's different." Bobbing up five hours later in front of the Fair's Administration Building, Mrs. Roosevelt was asked by reporters...
Last week when Premier Mushanoff's Cabinet fell and he was told to form another, the Zveno boys got busy. While Sofia slept, the officers of the city garrison reported at barracks for orders. By companies the Army marched softly into the streets, occupied public squares, politicians' homes, power houses, telephone and telegraph offices and the railway stations. Premier Mushanoff tried to get a telephone number, shouted impatiently into the mouthpiece: "Premier Mushanoff speaking here!" A mysterious voice replied: "You're not Premier any more." Soon he heard the roar of airplane engines swooping over the city...