Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty King George and her Majesty Queen Mary went to the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square, a couple of stone's throws from Buckingham Palace. En route the King caught a cold, later the cold turned to influenza, still later the influenza turned to bronchitis. The King went to bed...
...personal friend of the exiled family published a story of their distress. Young Otto, said she, had been outdoors playing. He tore his breeches. While they were being mended he was obliged to keep to his bed, for be had but one pair...
...hero and the heroine are in bed when the curtain rises. It is War time; his leave has been curtailed. There is no time for marriage. Not many days later a German shell hoists him abruptly Heavenward. Four years later, and she, in love with another man, the fact of that War night together is accidentally revealed at a house party. Not many moments pass before it is revealed that her old love still lives, blind, in a tiny English town...
...tried to forget their humiliation. Not so Horthy. Morning, noon and night, breakfast and dinner found him bedecked as an admiral. If he went shooting in the Royal Forest near Gödöllö, his uniform was with him; he took it off when he went to bed and upon the rare occasions when he played tennis. And, as if a uniformed Admiral of a non-existent Navy were not ridiculous enough, he took to riding a white horse, a grotesque proceeding for an Admiral which earned him well-merited derision...
...Golden Bed. Cecil B. De Mille is the man who made the marble bath tub and the towering music room symbols of riches and society. Silk sheets and aquatic revels in the garden were his stock in trade. He became one of the conspicuous cinema cheaters of truth. He prospered. This one is about a bed with an ancient history and how its influence affected modern characters. It has specimen splendor of the De Mille method. It is about as tasty as painted candy...