Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once he was so depressed by a chance word of rebuke from his father that he wandered off and disappeared for a time. Per contra, he once jumped from his bed in the middle of the night, intent on performing a newly conceived experiment, rushed to the Neva (on the other side of which stood his father's laboratory), plunged in and swam across. "I could not wait. The ferryboat was delayed," said...
...stories," readers begged. So, still disdaining them, he wrote more of these small tales that enchant children and philosophers, poets and delinquents, because in their translucence the mind sees its own reflection. One evening Hans, whose first friend was a pig, and his last a king, fell out of bed so awkwardly that he gave himself a hurt from which he never recovered. He died...
...come down from the hills. To them he talked of what had been revealed to him; some he healed, using the same formula with which he had raised his first patient, and it came to the ears of certain authorities that this formula was "Take up thy bed and walk." A few of Vespaciano's apostles were taken, questioned, and so the thing came out. They thought he was the Christ...
...babies-five months old-were lying side by side after they had been pronounced dead. He took their picture as they lay there- the dry mouths contorted in the gape of their last, desperate expiration, their heads twisted sidewise on the pillow. ISADORE AND MORRIS BELINSKY DEAD IN BED headlined the Evening Journal...
...took Helen (and some of the furniture) against her will, but that she never went to Troy-she had been staying with a lady and gentleman in Egypt. Helen will have nothing of such an alibi. She tells her neighbors that she is not repentant of "the bitter bridal bed where the fair mischief lay by Paris' side." It was inevitable. In fact Menelaus was to blame. Helen says: "I think a decent man could lose his wife without bringing...