Word: slumbered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, in a blaze of glory, the day at court closes, and once again you are permitted to peep into a Queen's boudoir. Once again the ladies of the Court dance attendance, and while the curtain descends, Her Royal Highness slowly sinks to slumber. It's a touching scene, so leave early if you are easily moved to tears...
...make "Babbitt" more exhilarating. The original Babbitt-George F.-as created by Author Sinclair Lewis, possessed the following: Head-large, pink, heavy. Hair-brown, thin, dry. Nose-Sloping, blunt, heavy spectacle-dented. Chin-overfleshed, strong. Cheeks-pads. Hands-puffy, unroughened. Body-well-fed. Legs-thick. Feet-plump. Expression in slumber-babyish. Expression in thought-"gets things done." General expression - extremely married, prosperous. Clothes - standard, brown or gray; white piping in vest. (He would feel naked without fountain pen and silver pencil in vest pocket.) Neck-tie-purple knitted or tapestry with stringless brown harps among blown palms; snakehead stickpin with...
...revival a short time later as a musical comedy, was little happier. On this occasion, the resourceful undergraduate abandoned vegetables for alarm clacks, and pretty chorus ladies were driven off the stage in a panic by a barrage of time pieces. "Brown of Harvard" was thereafter permitted to slumber for several years, until at last a movie producer nosed...
...when the world-worn modern (which is a much better name than tired business man) completes his vicarious journey and betakes himself from romantic reading to classic slumber he has really wandered a rather inferior road. "The High Adventure", after all, is not quite so lofty as its name might suggest. For the most half romanticist feels the need of certain tricks of style and thought to keep him from waking to reality. And Mr. Farnol has given him few in this particular work. The plot is very, very apparent. One reality guesses who the real villian is early...
...John Callahan, Superintendent of the Hadley Rescue Hall, No. 293 Bowery. At 7 p. m. every evening he admits some 175 vagrants, who are permitted to sleep on the floor of the mission during the night, but must arise and depart at 5 a. m. lest they slumber while they might be looking for work...