Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 4, Alfred Emanuel Smith stayed in bed till 10 a.m. at West Palm Beach, Fla. Cornered by newsgatherers he said, "Well, I'd forgotten the date. It is really March 4 now, isn't it? No, I don't think I shall tune in. What I want to do is shoot some golf." Asked if he had sent a message to Mr. Hoover, he answered, "Why should I bother him to read a telegram from me? I called on him a while ago personally and gave him my good wishes." Out on the golf course while...
...After four nights in the bed provided at the White House for Presidential slumber, Mr. Hoover ordered his own bed to be brought from his S Street house...
...yardstick of political power. A Harvard graduate of good family, the late Boies Penrose (1860-1921) climbed the Republican ladder of Pennsylvania to serve 24 years in the U. S. Senate, where Death found him chairman of the potent Finance Committee. Long a Republican National Committeeman, from his sick bed in Philadelphia he helped dictate the Harding nomination in 1920 over the long-distance telephone to Chicago. He wrote a scholarly history of Philadelphia's city government. The Penrose sandwich (graham bread, tongue, lettuce, tomato) is still a classic item in the Senate restaurant...
...there lay at Buckingham Palace: 1) In a drawer the so-called New Year's honors list; 2) In a bed the King-Emperor. Last week His Majesty was deemed sufficiently recovered for the honors list to be published, exactly as originally drawn...
When John Drew died in July 1927, the deanship of the U. S. stage passed from the Drawing Room to the Library. It might have gone into the Bed Room, but aging David Belasco had long since carried his pawkiness beyond the point where he could command respectful attention. Besides, vague though the title is, the Dean of the Stage should be an actor, if possible...