Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long after little Hollis and his mother went to bed, as the ship's bell struck midnight, they were all but thrown from their berths by a lurch of the vessel. Half awake, the child could hear screams, shrieks, the anguished cries of the humans in great peril. Quickly his mother bundled him in her arms, rushed him through a fear-tormented mob to the deck. Stars had disappeared. On the foggy deck, indistinct figures ran about, cursing and praying for life preservers...
...typewriter. Next were the Akron hills with the Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible hangar mounting tremendously toward completion. No trouble was there getting to Manhattan and Lakehurst, and much joy. First to alight was Lieut. Richardson, who jumped to hug his wife and child. Other passengers rushed variously for bath and bed. Said Playboy Leeds: "I never saw the world, but only four bathtubs. . . . Please let me hustle along to that warm bath...
...Irish serving girl. At the age of eleven in the streets of the slums. she gathered stray lumps of coal to keep her drunken father warm. "Youse wuzz good to me," she breathed to the portrait of her mother (recently deceased). She appeared in rags, in bathing suits, in bed; as the innocent, the maiden betrayed, finally as the tempered lady who babbled of green fields as she died in New Rochelle at the tender age of 22. Her devoted master and mistress, mystic and delicate respectively, were ever clad in lounging robes. When the curtain rolled down...
...blow up a stump. For dynamite he began mixing potassium chlorate and powdered sulphur but pressed too hard on a lump in the chlorate. A blinding flash, and the youth was found all bloody. Others were excited but Steinmetz, frantic, outdid them, jabbered English, German, gibberish, hopped from bed to chairs till quieted...
...night out the ship ran into low clouds, descended to 600 feet above the sea in order to pass under them, could not, so ascended to 1,000 feet. Brilliant cabin lights threw the silhouettes of passengers against the clouds. Passengers played with their shadows. Commander Eckener went to bed. So did the passengers...