Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite a jump from D. T. McCord's "The Ups and Downs of Skiing," to Mr. R. Emerson's "Religion--Past, Present, and Future." After a brief, dizzy excursion into space we wake up in bed to find only one limb out of a possible four functioning properly. Then Mr. Emerson comes along and prescribes a rather ambitious, eloquent, inaccurate order of Religion. We refuse to swallow...
...unconscious for two days, and then opened his big grey eyes and looked at Anne with a sleepy smile of recognition. Then he turned his head. Gilbert and Francesca were standing at the edge of his bed. He stared past them, at the window; his little thin white face lit up with his own cheerful grin...
...hand. You yourself prove beyond the shadow of a doubt to an intellectual world no longer as narrow-minded and provincial as it used to be, that every word uttered against you was true, that you are indeed (if your statements reflect the sentiment of your college) a hot-bed of despicably British Toryism. When the so-called "loyal coalition" can quote you, you have indeed reached heights of ignorant bigotry and falsehood...
...unfortunately when he was cremating some scattered portions of Dr. Parkman the gentleman's false teeth fell through the grate of the furnace into the ash bed beneath. The discovery of these false teeth and its identification by the doctor's dentist were enough to send Professor Webster to the gallows...
...appetite is so poor and my other needs so limited while I am in bed, as I shall be for some months, that I can think of but one thing that would help me--that is a graphophone and a few musical comedy and band records. That would help chase the blues, but it is not a necessity...