Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Callers at the White House included: Richard M. Tobin, U. S. Minister to the Netherlands, to pay his respects; Governor John W. Martin of Florida to invite the President to visit his state this winter (the gentleman from Florida was shocked to see a bed of pansies in full bloom on the White House lawn); Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland to explain a plan for creating a Department of National Defense (uniting War, Navy and Air-a plan to which the President is opposed) ; Senator Willis of Ohio to discuss plans for getting the Senate to approve...
...Newark, N. J., a little man named Gustave Zobel, 70, stood in an artificial beard and a preposterous red coat, on a street corner, ringing a small bell. By performing this simple act for a certain number of hours every day he earned enough money for food and bed. Why it should give joy to anyone to see him standing in the cold wind tinkling a dinner clapper was more than Mr. Zobel could determine, but since The Volunteers of America were ready to pay for such mummery, it was not his part to find fault. He attracted a good...
...think as we hollow the narrow bed...
...second acts of Herodiade at the Chicago Auditorium while call boys went to tell William Beck, baritone, that it was time to go on as Vitellius. Baritone Beck was not to be found in his dressing room. A messenger hurried to his hotel, found the baritone lying in bed. He was dead...
Welcome to your gory bed...