Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unhappy Sir--It is best to peruse this letter in bed. If this is inconvenient, at least don't read it at a stairway, elevator shaft, or near non-resilient or sharp objects. Move away from the window now, take a deep breath and hold it. One, two, three: Your wife and kiddies dropped dead today from--Woop there! Steady man! Watch out for . . . .! As I was saying, fell dead from the Waldorf-Astoria roof. They were all playing tag football when the wife stepped back for a long drop. And do you know that flagstaff in the square below...
...heaped for the beloved's bed...
Other wares now chainized: Nuts, groceries, shirts, confections, drugs, cigars, banking, books, orange-juice, optical goods, shoes, breakfast-lunch-and-dinner, radio, blouses, bed and board, knitted wear, hosiery, sporting goods, men's clothing, men's tailoring, automobile accessories, corsets, drygoods, hats, baked goods, enter- tainment...
...arrived to find that certain streets below Massachusetts Avenue were lined with automobiles. Thereupon, the law enforcers cleverly realized that it might be well first to remove the cars. But what consternation pervaded their ranks when the autos were found locked and their owners either in class or in bed. What to do? What...
...frontispiece, the song constitutes a versified testament and is entitled "Father Abbey's Will". An explanatory preface precedes the first lines which reads: "Some time since died here Mr. Matthew Abbey in a very advanced age. He had for many year's served the college in quality of bed maker and sweeper. Having no child, his wife inherited his whole estate which he bequeathes to her in his last will and testament as follows...