Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason or another, like the bill as passed by the House-either because it had higher surtaxes than the Mellon plan, or for some other reason, felt that 'the bill had a better chance of becoming law if the reduction for this year were blanketed in the same bed with their other pets...
...game for the Blue, failed to scintillate due to his being so well covered by Captain Lightbourn of the Crimson quintet. The showing of Leekley, who tossed two field goals and six fouls through the basket, is all the more remarkable because he had just come from a sick-bed...
Alex Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars, was reported ill and confined to his bed. For some time he has been in poor health, having, two years ago, spent several months in Germany undergoing treatment for stomach trouble...
...anguished cries of their stomachs. Napoleon, who is an example for almost everything, ate at all hours, nibbled sweets constantly, and finally lost the battle of Waterloo because of a stomach ache. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, was in the habit of eating a heavy dinner and going immediately to bed--where he regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from overeating." It seems established that while the diet can neither produce nor defeat genius, it can nevertheless...
...Johns Hopkins, he had cultivated sideburns. He had a phonograph brought to his bedside to minister to his undiminished love of music. Official papers were brought to him, and he signed them with effort, as best he could. After many months he was again able to leave his bed, although still lame on his left side. In 1921 when Mr. Wilson retired from office, the physicians declared that he had "five minutes, five months, or five years to live." But his will would not yield. He took regular automobile rides, saw a few visitors, lived quietly. Late in January...