Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plastic surgery (restoration of mutilated features) was practiced in Italy as early as 1456. Noses, lips, ears were repaired. Hospitals of the 14th and 15th Centuries were scrupulously clean; bed linen was changed often; stoves were wheeled to the bedsides of patients in winter. Anatomy was studied by dissection, leprosy almost disappeared, other diseases were isolated.-Prof. Lynn Thorndike, Columbia University...
...ever awake early some morning, while it was yet dark, and hear the milkman rattle the bottles as he left the nice milk for your breakfast,-and as you snuggled in your warm little bed did you send out to the milkman a loving thought, a grateful thought, and ask God to keep him happy ar warm...
That portion of the receiving public within range of Station WOR (Newark) has but to set its dials before going to bed and it is awakened at seven next morning by the clanging of a huge and strident alarm clock...
...goes the bell. Out of bed leaps the public. While the public yawns and stretches, a cheery, conversational gentleman in Newark tells his "early birds" that it is time for their morning exercises. He cracks a small joke or two "to liven things up" and, to be even more amusing, uses the studio props-"crickets"' and other noise-making contraptions - to represent creaking joints and splitting pajama legs. The command is given, a piano strikes up, the conversational gentleman barks out the count, mixing in banter and joviality...
...savage diatribe against women. He produced The Harem-a. dull and dangerous farce about seduction. Finally, he has produced Ladies of the Evening, a play frankly, almost viciously, pornographic. Cognoscenti assert that Mr. Belasco has fared unfavorably in finance of late. He has turned to the last refuge, the bed, to feather his declining nest...