Word: snored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...forest clearing outside the town, exhausted Holy Rollers snore under the shrubbery after a night's orgy of insane gesticulation and acrobatics incited by a mouthing, syncopating professional ecstatic. Sid Strunk, the village policeman, ruminates over his breakfast coffee that it is a good thing they have brought reserves from Chattanooga. About 8 o'clock, dusty wagons, gigs, buggies and small automobiles come jogging in along the country roads. In them are gaunt farmers, their wives in gingham and children in overalls, who crowd toward the court house to get seats for the day's proceedings...
...psychology of the situation is very puzzling. Assuming, of course, that he has dire need of sleep, (or else he would not forego listening to the lecture), why does he snore? Is this the result of a complex, a guilty conscience or a bad meal? In any case, were he not to choose such a conspicuous way of rousing himself, we could all sympathize heartily. There is nothing like a good rest now and then with nothing to disturb...