Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airplane swooped down to the field. Out stepped Edward of Wales. Delighted at his presence, no Scout cared that he, Chief Scout of Wales, slept that night in a tent with pillow and mattressed bed, lavatory, boarded flooring...
...shot caused handsome Prince Hsien Kai to sink groaning into a bed of Japanese chrysanthemums. Hotel waitresses shrieked,'but most of the Oriental males present grew warily silent, prudently slipped away. Eventually, however, several wiry little Japanese policemen went up to tackle Ugly Customer Chang...
...Upshaw conversion came when be was 16. One night he arrived home drunk. Shocked, his mother put him to bed, told his father he was "sick." "Next day" he tells, "I got down on my knees and promised God I would never drink again as long as I lived. I never have...
...leader of the oppressed Flemings. The photography might be 20 years old and so might the sword fights, the kisses in jail, the pursuit on horseback, the Inquisition, the pardon delivered at the scaffold by the king's messenger. Only good shot: Raquel Meller crossing herself in bed when her dog, startled by a flash of lightning, begins to bark...
...bed, Hypochondriac Proust used to wear a long nightgown, sweaters, mufflers, stockings, gloves, a nightcap. He lived on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, in a cork-lined attic room. His curtains were drawn against the tree-dust he found obnoxious. The smell of perfumes, flowers, steam heat, oppressed him unbearably. Only at 3 a.m., when breathing was easiest for his asthma, would he venture into the street. In a drawing-room he would not doff his fur-lined coat. Once someone entered his house from several flights below, leaving the street-door ajar. Quavered Proust: "Shut that door!"-and died...