Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this palace have slept Madame de Pompadour, the Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Alexander I, Queen Victoria and the Sultan Abdul Aziz?though not all at the same time. Here Napoleon Bonaparte signed his second abdication as Emperor of the French. Here since 1873 have slept the twelve Presidents of the French Republic...
...went up on the bridge. Playfully an officer took Chancellor Brüning by the arm, saying: "It is a rule of the Hamburg-American Line that all passengers must sleep in their berths from two to four in the afternoon." From two to four Bachelor Brüning slept in his berth. Husband Curtius said he would sleep in a deck chair, cheated, was caught reading Shakespeare's Macbeth...
...tiny clearing in a green hell of jungle, near the bank of the Paranapanema River, the two men set out on foot. They lost their map and compass. A box of crackers, their only food besides a jar of marmalade, was consumed by red ants while they slept. Bitten raw by insects, torn by thickets, nearly starved, the men pushed on through the swamps until, on the eighth day, Quaranta collapsed, out of his head with fever and suffering. Di Robilant struggled on, was found on the twelfth day by an Indian and four white fugitives from justice. Next...
...babies didn't seem to mind, tho, and, as a matter of fact often slept thru a home run. Perhaps one reason why the Japanese were slow at the game at first was because they insisted on being polite about it as they are about everything in Japan. There, if one man knocks an- other down accidentally they both apologize. They did the same on the field so there was much time out for bowing and telling one's opponent go Men Nasai, ("I beg your pardon"). But there is very little of that...
Exhorting a Boston audience, Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday predicted his own early death, crying: "I'm running in high all the time! I scorch downhill! . . . I've got Napoleon [who slept only four hours per night] backed off the boards, hanging on the ropes!" Then he said he desired that after his death his body should rest in a Boston churchyard. He roared: "Boy, I like the folks back here! ... I told Mrs. Sunday not to bury me in the ground, not to cremate me. I want to be put in a sepulchre...