Word: slumberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...milk, sip slowly, then make one last readjustment of the pillows, snap out the light, pull the coverlets around your shoulders, give a little sigh, the sigh isn't absolutely necessary but usually is done, and the chances are greatly in favor of a good night's slumber descending before you have time to pick up again the count of sheep where you left off. "You don't have to wait until bedtime. . . . There are plenty of occasions during the day, for instance, when you are fatigued or fingers or toes are cold, or for no reason...
...richer or more feared than that spry little Senator with a great mop of grey hair, Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour. In Geneva they used to know him as the perennial No. 2 French Delegate to the League, Aristide Briand being No. 1. Often, while No. 1 slumbered or seemed to slumber in his aisle seat, blocking the egress of other French Delegates, nimble No. 2 would leave and return to his seat by leaping lightly over a desk, thus permitting No. 1 to slumber...
...country who telegraphed their votes back to N. B. C. in Manhattan. Week later the five pieces were played again, the composers announced. Philip James of Manhattan won $5,000 for Station WGZBX, a midget symphony which ingeniously describes lobby confusion at a studio, interference and "static, a slumber hour, microphone hysteria. Another $5,000 was divided between Max Wald, a native of Litchfield, Ill., living in Paris; Carl Eppert of Milwaukee, Florence Grandland Galajikian of Maywood, Ill., Nicolai Berezowsky of Manhattan. President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of N. B. C. made the awards at the broadcast...
...Vagabond last night was roused form slumber by the fitful glare of flames reflected in the inverted muskmelon crowning the Dunster House Tower, whither he had retired in his eternal quest for "dat ole davil" indifference who is reputed to haunt the University. Instinctively he reached for the rope to sound the tocsin but bit his lip when he realized where...
...thus, he gave up the ghost. Proverbs: 6: 9-11 How long will you How long wilt thou He, O sluggard? sleep, O sluggard? When will you rise When wilt thou arise from your sleep? out of thy sleep? "A little sleep, a Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, little slumber, a little A little folding of folding of the hands to hands to rest" -sleep: So will poverty come So shall thy poverty upon you like a footpad, come as one that trav-And want like an armed ellcth, and thy want as man. an armed...