Word: yawns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House. The funnyman arrived, dined, told some of his "Worst Stories," slept, left the next morning. Mr. Rogers then informed the press: "I guess I was too much for him. We sat around in the living-room upstairs, swapping yarns, but by 8 o'clock he started to yawn and by 10 o'clock he had fallen asleep...
...other hand if ice and snow are rather too elusive to be land, the top of the world may not be exempt from a republican tariff. Although these questions agitate men who have probably never seen an iceberg, the polar bears may no doubt be permitted a yawn. That a sliding scale of import duties can have a vital effect on denizens of the slippery north seems unlikely. Even the Eskimos do not appear to be lobbying in congressional haunts...
...following morning Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, was roused from his bed and summoned to the house in which the Duchess lay, according to immemorial royal custom.† At 2:40 a. m. a daughter was born. Her first act, according to witnesses, was to yawn at Sir William Joynson-Hicks...
...gangsters idly wondered how Von Elm had liked the way they had drawn some of the already-retiring tees still further back. How had he liked the look of that shaggy carry to the sixth green, or that oblique yawn in the eighth fairway that it took 450 tons of sand to fill? Had he often made a more perilous march than down the 601-yard twelfth, where they had smoothed the deep bunkers to dissemble innocence and the far pin retreated like a mirage...
...after the "House" ball, perchance a Magdalen ball, a "Quaggers" ball and many other balls, at which the most sumptuous refreshments are served in an atmosphere unostentatiously aristocratic, Oxford will run its eyes, yawn and fall fast asleep for the summer...