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Most intriguing piece of description is Mr. Bridges' chapter on "Midnight in the Zoo." He went out one dark night and found that lions and tigers prowl about, that monkeys snore just like humans, that snakes sleep soundly with their eyes wide open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Book From The Bronx | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

There were no codes, relief, no N. R. A., And a man was free to fix his pay, Free to loaf, labor or snore, Oh, come ye back, ye days of yore, When the eagle perched on the mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Power Laureate | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...first vote goes to the Snore Professor who consistently left us weak and strangling. Jack Benny himself does well with few good lines, and June Knight, now of "Jubilee," is decorative when not called upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/23/1935 | See Source »

...thus wasted. The fact that attendance has grown may or may not be indicative of an increasing interest in religion, but it at least substantiates the claim that Harvard's Chapel services mean far more than Princeton's, wherein men read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe, and snore, through sheer boredom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CHAPELS | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...aisles when lanky Ray Bolger impersonates a window dresser retiring for the night, or when squalling, grimacing Bert Lahr is bilked by a stockbroker. But plenty of people will be amused by Cartoonist Robert Wildhack who brings to the footlights an old trick that made his Victor record, "Snores & Sneezes," famed some 20 years ago. Mr. Wildhack timidly comes onstage in cap & gown, nervously thumbing a notebook, to lecture on labial "Sound Phenomena." With authentic academic embarrassment, he takes up snores, classifies them scientifically, self-consciously illustrates them. Snore 2 d, the "Westinghouse Airbrake," a heart-rending grunt followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Sep. 10, 1934 | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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