Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early next morning, while the loyal subjects slept off their headaches, King Prajadhipok was up with his eyes open, planning a new law to allow the citizens of Bangkok, capital of his absolute kingdom, to elect their own municipal officers...
...nephew and his lawyers came to take her money and treasures to a bank for safekeeping. From the folds of her dress she took a bundle and handed it over. It contained nearly $400,000 in bills; but they had to find the remainder for themselves. While Mrs. Wood slept a nurse extracted another bundle containing $500.000 from a money belt under her clothes. In several trunks was found jewelry appraised at $900,000. Gems, picked from their settings, were found stuffed into the upholstered furniture. How much more was hidden away remained a mystery last week. Some 40 trunks...
...Mahatma's life safe? Scotland Yard sent with him four detectives (each over 200 lb.), just in case. Darwen, black focus of Lancashire depression, was Inspector Gandhi's objective, but Scotland Yard bundled him off his train at nearby Springvale Village. There the Mahatma slept safely, with a local constable stationed every 50 yards on all approaching roads. In Darwen next day the well-guarded Mahatma was both booed ("Tear his eyes out!") and cheered ("Good old Gandhi!"). He met the Mayor, visited shut factories, gloomy homes. "It distresses me," said St. Gandhi, "that in all this unemployment...
...Gandhi, hope of millions of Indian Nationalists, continued his extraordinary progress to Britain last week aboard 5. S. Rajpntana. Spurning the cabin which the Government had put aside for his use. he slept under a thin sheet on a hard wooden bench in the stern. The ship's cat. a huge black torn, developed a taste for the Mahatma's goat's milk and purred peaceably beside...
...with many housebreakings. Housebreaker Kovany's story: He had lost his good job. had to give up his fine apartment, now lived by casual work. Without rest he could not work. In a hard bed he could not res:. So each night he broke into a big house, slept in a soft bed, remade the bed before he left...