Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haven't slept an hour since night before last," Senator Glass declared out of the corner of his mouth. But fatigue did not diminish the little Virginian's ardor of exposition. He admitted that there were sections of the bill that "shocked" him. Pointing to its anti-hoarding provision as "arbitrary," he said: "I don't know who there is with wit or wisdom enough to define hoarding...
...barrier crumpled, a 10-ft. crack opened three feet from the tent in which Captain Riiser-Larsen, Hallvard Devoid and Olaw Kjelbotn slept. Outdoors was pitch dark. They returned to their tent, anxiously waiting for daylight...
...teacher of Godfrey Rockefeller, 8, great grandnephew of John D. Sr., at the Greenwich (Conn.) Country Day School, told her class last week to prepare a short story. That night Godfrey slept at a friend's house, plotted an early start West for story material. At 3 a. m.. Godfrey & friend, dressed in sombrero and Buffalo Bill belt, tiptoed out and legged it up the cold & windy Boston Post Road. Soon a police car pulled up, took them to the station house as homeless waifs. After they had given their names and before they were returned to their...
...nation took a breathing spell. President Roosevelt slept and rose to tell the Governors of 25 States, summoned a month before to the White House, how they must work as henchmen of the Federal Government to make its banking plans -not yet worked out-effective everywhere throughout the nation...
...decided that the picnic had lasted long enough. Police spent two hours gently herding out the crowd. From the roof deputy sheriffs used a fire hose to quench the spirits of some 500 or 600 who tried to force their way back inside. ¶ Some 4,000 Nebraska farmers slept on the State Fair Grounds two miles out of Lincoln one night last week. Next morning they hitched up their overalls, raised their banners, marched shouting and singing to the Capitol. Half of them got into the legislative chamber, presented to a joint session of the Legislature two sets...