Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While all this was being aired, Senator Couzens was sick in bed with inflammation of the bladder...
Some classes of stocks have taken part in the rally which has occurred since last Fall, and have all along remained at low levels. Such has been the fate of most leather, shipping, rubber and fertilizer shares, and it reflects something tougher than a bed of roses in these particular industries. Now stocks of other classes are beginning to "look sick." Automobile shares have gone down hill despite advertisements of the new four-wheel brakes. Steels have followed them. There is little song in the tobacco camp. On the other hand, rails have held rather well...
...Evelyn Nesbit, Thaw's former wife, rose from the bed on which she had been sitting in her ill-furnished hotel room; shook off the four griffons and the Albino Pekinese which had scrambled about her lap while she spoke; dashed to the mirror, seized a large comb and ran it through her black hair, which hangs to her shoulders in a long straight...
...According to Evelyn's testimony under oath, he summoned her from her bed into a great baronial hall, suddenly drew forth a heavy whip and then began furiously to lash her. He would, and did punish her because she had not come to him as a lily of the fields. Harry Thaw wanted everything and thought he had enough money to get everything-even decency...
...Oswald Mosley, wrote a letter to Prime Minister MacDonald stating that he intends joining the Independent Labor Party. This young man is the one who, a year ago, described a note written by me to Premier Poincaré as 'pompous', adding: 'All the ministers went to bed for a month, so arduous was the exertion of maintaining their dignity...