Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans to scrutinize the Overton-Broussard contest. During an explosive two weeks it became clear that the foes of Senator Long were trying to put the "Kingfish" and his crowd on trial instead of Senator Overton. The inquiring Senators scattered, dismissed their counsel. For nine months the inquiry slept. Fortnight ago it was revived as the result of vigorous protests from such outraged Louisianans as Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune, and her Women's Committee of Louisiana (TIME...
...ride in an ordinary lower berth. We have engaged the drawing room for you." Said she: 'I've $4.53 here in my purse and that's all. If you want to give me a drawing room for that I'm perfectly satisfied." She slept in the lower berth...
Inconsolable was Louise Turck Stanton, a slight, dark-haired woman of 32. She had her husband's casket brought to the Turck home where they had spent their one year of married life. She slept beside it on a daybed in the reception hall. After the funeral she resumed her flying which two years before had led to her romance with Gordon Stanton at the municipal airport...
Followed the famed "March on Bucharest" of 60,000 unarmed, peaceful peasants who squatted, sprawled and slept all over the muddy streets of the capital in protest against the Dynasty of Bratianu. Finally Vintila, far less able and astute than Ion, was forced to resign. Advised by Rumania's three Regents, Boy King Mihai appointed as Premier the National Peasant Party leader, chipper little Professor luliu Maniu, who arrived at the Royal Palace with his new Cabinet list scribbled on a crumpled bit of paper, exclaiming "Here it is!" (TIME...
...Tennysonesque Lord Salisbury, Author Maurois says: "He always looked as though he had slept in his clothes. . . . When he was bored, as he was by nearly every human activity, he showed it by a trembling of the legs peculiar to himself...