Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last October Pullman Co. asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to up its sleeping-car berth rates 20% when two passengers slept together.† Organizations of traveling salesmen protested. So did theatrical producers and agents who frequently send their chorus girls on tour "doubled up" in Pullman space. Last week the I. C. C. denied the increase...
After almost a week of pedaling around a steeply inclined pine-board track in Madison Square Garden last week, most of the riders in Manhattan's 52nd International Six Day Bicycle Race were from 5 to 15 Ib. heavier than when they started. They had not slept much-five hours per day, mostly between 5 a. m. and noon-but they had made up for it by eating huge quantities of beef, chicken and raw celery. The basement of Madison Square Garden is never more malodorous, even when populated by show dogs or poultry, than when its catacombs...
...fever. Weaker grew the puppies' whines. Mrs. Ruby was desperate, the doctor at the end of his resources. Suddenly the door flew open. In walked Horace Holden with Fluffy. "Yelp!" yelped Fluffy, bounding to the bed. Jane Ruby stretched out her arms, her fever subsided, she slept. Four spitz puppies had a hearty meal. Embarrassed at the praise showered upon him, the golden-hearted detective backed out, took lonesome old Lawrence Smith to jail...
...Honolulu for the murder of Joseph Kaha-hawai, charged with attacking her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hedges Massie. Declared Mrs. Fortescue: "... I am glad it is all out in the open. Those days when my daughter's name was suppressed . . . were worse than these last few weeks. ... I have slept better since . . . the day of the murder than for a long time. . . . Now, of course, I realize we bungled dreadfully, although at the time I thought we were being careful." Seaman Albert O. Jones, U. S. N., held as accomplice of Lieut. Massie, proudly exhibited to Reporter Owen...
...Fresno-bound party slept at Tipton where, before they went northward, they traded some barley with Felicitas Guerreo's aunt. The old woman gave the barley to her niece to make some tortillas. They all cursed those vile vagabonds from Porterville, because the tortillas tasted so bad. The barley must have been spoiled. The Guerreos buried the food. But the chickens scratched it up, gobbled it down and promptly died. Felicitas Guerreo, 19, felt too miserable to curse. Her legs and stomach ached. Her parents hurried her to a hospital at Visalia...