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Thus does Simmons Co. now advance by going backward. The company is in a strong cash position, having ended last year with $6,682,000 in the banks, none owed them, with $21,000,000 current assets against $2,228,000 current liabilities. Its beds and mattresses (Beautyrest, Deepsleep, Slumber King, Ace) are still leaders. An ace-in-the-hole which it has long threatened to play on the industry is Zalmite, a synthetic compound whose chief ingredients are said to be peanut shells, burlap & other waste materials. Zalmite was of course named for President Zalmon Gilbert Simmons. Although early...
...tenor of their testimony was "Prohibition is bad because- ." The arguments presented were by no means fresh. Virginia's Congressman Montague, a Dry committee member, dozed off into restful slumber, so weary was he with hearing the same old facts used to damn the 18th Amendment. When handclapping in the audience became very loud, Dry Representative Yates of Illinois remarked: "I object to this noise. If we are to have a town meeting here I will withdraw." When nobody seemed to care whether he left or not, he decided to stay...
...understand the design of the whole: Hero H. C. Earwicker, onetime postman, hotelkeeper, shopkeeper, now working in Guinness's brewery, is a Dublin citizen, but a native of Norway. He is married, has children; but his past is not blameless. A girl named Anna Livia haunts his slumbers; he has been guilty of various misdeeds, brawls and shortcomings. The story opens with Earwicker just lapsing into drowsy slumber, continues through the night, through sleep that is now restless, now deep, visited by dreams, nightmares, confused recollections of the past day, of the past years. It is a stream...
College authorities who object to the prevalent undergraduate custom of trooping off for the weekend have obviously not tried to sleep to the Massachusetts avenue obligato of Mack trucks and screaming street car rails. The two nights a week of rural slumber afforded by the pleasant Harvard custom of week-ending guarantee at least a nucleus of rest around which to group whatever additional moments may be snatched in the cloistered bedrooms abutting on the square. In other words the Dean's office has made no mistake in allowing a certain amount of leeway on such weekends as the coming...
...dealt with by League statesmen: Peace in the East. "There is an Old World," he cried, "old in civilization, old in philosophy, old in religion, old in culture, which hitherto has been weak in those material powers that have characterized the Western peoples. But that Old World, wrapped in slumber as we thought, has now become awake . . . and is asking us to grant it ... the freedom we have been nurturing and nourishing for ourselves for so many gen- erations...