Word: drowsyness
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playwright-brothers Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero seem to produce, their collaborations in the drowsy noons of their native Spain, recording the gentle disturbances which occur in villages where everyone is either anticipating or taking a siesta. Earlier this season, Otis Skinner's genial grunts sounded almost melodramatic in...
Monuments. In his last days, his countrymen thought of Edward William Bok as a man who had not only left his mark on his time, but had erected monuments and written books to perpetuate and explain his career. His "singing tower," where the drowsy carillon tintinnabulates at sunset as bony...
Three of Europe's most distinguished statesmen rushed through the 58th session of the Council of the League of Nations last week with the haste of a trio of Babbits snatching a quick lunch. Drowsy old Aristide Briand, veteran French Foreign Minister, shambled out of The Hague Conference (see...
* Because they knew that mild carbon monoxide poisoning simulates alcoholic intoxication two eminent Englishmen, John Scott Haldane, 69, honorary professor and director of Birmingham University Mining Research Laboratory, and Leonard Erskine Hill, 63, famed physiologist, recently saved a hapless Englishman from gaol. The fellow and two friends had drunk some...
Third Day. At Paris, drowsy tourists and blowsy workpeople heard a hum and saw the Graf Zeppelin in the morning sky. She soared around the city's centre, then wafted towards Friedrichshafen.