Word: slumbering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that in New Jersey a miracle has come to pass. In Keansburg is the little Catholic Church of St. Anne's. With its unadorned walls and severe arched windows it resembles a Spanish mission. Two days after Christmas Father Thomas Kearney was roused from his early morning slumber by a wild-eyed townsman who talked of visions. Together they went and stood before the church. On the door shimmered a soft image. A tender, shadowy face, slender hands and billowy robes were suggested in mottled luminescence. At dawn it disappeared. Thereafter the image appeared at twilight, continued through...
...interested in the fifth correction of Herbert Janvrin Browne in LETTERS of Oct. 29. "Incidentally," Mr. Browne writes, "less is known about the slumber habits of horses than of any other domestic animal." That may be, but I have had experience which proves to me, at least, that horses do sleep, and with a vengeance...
...Column 2, page 40. "Hoofs" is the more acceptable plural for "hoof." Incidentally, less is known about the slumber habits of horses than of any other domestic animal. I have been around horses for over sixty years and do not remember ever to have actually seen a horse asleep. Certainly they require very little sleep...
Rescue work was continued as night fell. A few moments after midnight tolled there was heard an ominous crash. In another quarter of the city another building had collapsed. It too had been nearing completion, and since the workmen had all gone home to slumber no one was killed. Next morning experts again croaked, "faulty construction." Nervous, superstitious citizens waited for a third building to fall...
...Senator Borah and Representative Tinkham have their way, all the fire works of nullification, states fights et al will be revived after an unbroken, if often troubled, slumber of nearly a century. Andrew Jackson's spirit doubtless smiles faintly, as it observes the dismay that spreads cloudlike over the visages of presidential candidates cornered by these two assiduous members of Congress. To be asked about the Eighteenth Amendment was bad enough, but with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, never mentioned except in the appendices of school histories, unearthed and held as a mirror to the poor candidate, one ceases...