Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past week five persons stood around the Prince's bed in the Akasaka Palace, Tokyo. One was Dr. Kikuchi, Surgeon to the Imperial Household; one was Dr. Irizawa, Court Physician; another was Count Chinda, Grand Chamberlain; two were nurses. An operation had been performed on the Prince's nose. He was reported to be recovering rapidly...
Where is the solution? Walter Prichard Eaton is coached in the bed of experience in the theatres, and can thus bolster up his academic conscience with a defiant air. He is, moreover, in harmony with these impulses of a rejuvenated era of artistic expression (witness the fact that he even writes for the New Republic). Last but not least, he has been labelled "approved by" actors, playwrights, and again even by those everlastingly finical and eternal plagues of critics. Could we ask for a better truce? Leo Slafsky...
...STREET OF THE EYE-Gerald Bullet-Boni Liveright ($2.00). Simmering, sizzling, boiling, gurgling, spitting, the fear of God bubbled like Hell's lava in the head of Bellingham; it drove him out of bed and across the arid plains of Hell under a sky monotonously grey except where the sun, a bloody red, like a huge socket from which the eye had been torn, stared sightlessly at him. In this story, the first and most powerful in the book, Mr. Gerald Bullet adeptly spins out mystification until it becomes mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made...
After I had put her to bed, I sat down to read TIME and came across Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner's theories. After I'd finished the article, I think I was more amused than my daughter...
...monocle in right eye, but were somewhat abashed to find that his lounging costume consisted of a brown-and-rose pullover sweater, heavy gold bands on each wrist to support watch, bangles, etc., and five massive rings. As he talked, he fidgeted. His glass had kept dropping from its bed between the fold of his brow and the pouch of his eye. He waved long arms, discussed his music in French and German...