Word: slumbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...error in the CRIMSON's Telephone Directory has recently disturbed the early morning slumber of Cambridge patrolman John E. McCarthy...
...this same Drygoodsman James Cash Penney the slumber-loving millionaire
...orchestra. In past years, Jones had had the well-drilled Philadelphia Orchestra in front of him; this time, with the Philadelphia on its first tour of Britain, he had first-class musicians, but it was still a pickup band. Even so, with the last quiet but magnificent "Slumber now, and take thy rest," one listener, a Baltimore lawyer who has been trekking to Bethlehem for 20 years, said appreciatively: "A good Friday; but you know, what we come for is the Saturday...
Last week bird lovers were again having a time. In the letters column of the Manchester Guardian, several correspondents described the belligerent tendency of male British bullfinches and chaffinches to attack their own reflections in windowpanes, incidentally disturbing the early morning slumber of human Britons. Nobody suggested shooting the noisemakers; the correspondents seemed to favor a mild deterrent-white paper stretched over the window to abolish reflection...
...Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects by the example of his intellectual...