Word: slept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Syosset, L. I., Robert Ruvinstein, 14, put on motor goggles and cap, stole an automobile. He had difficulty starting it, asked passersby for a push. He rode until tired, then slept. Apprehended, he explained that he had an aunt two years younger than himself who got all the attention in the family, that he wanted some excitement...
stamps. His past prison recon failed to impress investors so much as the fact that he had a great new home in Lexington, Mass, and slept in lavender pajamas. To Ponzi's creditors last week were mailed checks representing ½% of their claims. This payment, the last, made a total of 37½% paid since the first attempt were made to unravel Ponzi's wrecked web, destruction of which brought down several Boston trust companies. Charles Ponzi is now in Boston State Prison. In 1920 he was sent to a Federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud...
...pantheon over the ashes of El Libertador. Dictator Gomez remained prudently on his heavily guarded model farm. Oldsters mourned the fact that Cenizo was no longer living to take part in the ceremony. Cenizo, as all Caracans remember, was a dog of uncertain parentage who for nearly ten years slept on the base of the Bolivar statue in the Plaza Bolivar, appointed himself its official guardian, grew fat and imperious on the bounty of cafe proprietors, was the only dog ever to be an Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Venezuela...
...camera steady enough to photograph the deck after a sea broke over the bow. Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food afloat in the galley. Five times a tilt of a wave threw the green-faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours Shamrock plowed through the Gulf Stream under bare poles. A seam opened in the delicate bow, bashed 'by tons of water every minute. For days on end two men were lashed to the wheel day & night, three worked the pumps, three slept. Nobody looked...
...implements more. While the rest of the party went farther up the river, Mrs. Dickey, who accompanies her husband, stayed on shore with the Guaharibos. The tribe has an unusually high infant mortality rate. Mrs. Dickey said the women wailed all night for their dear children, while the men slept. She liked the Guaharibos men, described them as sensitive, friendly. Said she: "I never saw finer instincts in any white men than in those savages...