Word: bed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Digger went sadly back to his room, and while preparing to go to bed, made a great many good resolutions for next year...
This company must be intending to leave the legitimate drama for pantomime, for nearly every article turns into something else, - generally into a bed. The fascinating columbine, Modjeska, sits during the daytime on a sofa which, with a wave of her wand, turns into a four-poster, while the noted harlequin, Manager H. H. Sargent, with a blow of his sword, turns some one of his numerous nickel-plated conveniences into a trundle-bed...
...would be the first requisite. A nickel-plated lamp would also be very convenient at the four-to-five recitations in winter. Some who now find it hard to get to a nine-o'clock recitation might be accommodated with a secretary that would change into a bed, and this would assure their being on the spot in time the next morning. A silver-plated bath-tub would al o be extremely agreeable...
That clings to Love, or waves o'er Mystery's bed...
...crimson stockings wend their way to Jarvis Field, and the Juniors who have lost their privilege of voluntary recitations sorrowfully take notes at lectures, - it was the deadest hour of night. I folded my completed forensic, and went down for a few minute; of fresh air before going to bed...