Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parade approaches. President Hoover issues from the White House, climbs through the back of a grandstand built over the fence, tulip-bed and sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue. He takes his post in a glassed-in pulpit, to receive and return the salutes of the U. S. People...
Upstairs. When the President awakens in his four-poster mahogany bed, his eyes may travel out over the verdure of the White House park to the massy shaft of the Washington monument, which gleams pink at sunrise. If he goes to his south window and peers to the right, he may also see a corner of the State, War & Navy Building. In his room is the bed that was built for Abraham Lincoln, so huge (6½ ft. by 9 ft.) that four Roosevelt children could be comfortably tucked away in it crosswise...
...thoroughly tired of office after two and a half years of struggle and achievement, he did not even condescend to appear in the Chamber, last week, to defend his Government. Though suffering from only the lightest attack of influenza, the wise old "Lion of Lorraine" kept to his bed, and let the demagogs in the Palais Bourbon roar. For periods of five, ten, 15 minutes it was impossible to distinguish any orator's impassioned periods above the babel. When a vote of confidence was taken - on a trifling issue of local politics - no one seemed to care much whether...
...York) time. Exponents of the change argued that Chicago and New York should have the same financial hours. Objectors argued that Chicago would have to put its clocks two hours ahead of the present schedule when New York goes on daylight saving time, early risers would get out of bed in darkness. Furthermore, keeping time with New York would involve time conflicts with Chicago's nearer friends, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City...
...incorporated in the superb acrobatics of the only living actor who is also a great athlete. He has his best rôle again ? D'Artagnan. Cardinal Richelieu, crafty, red-robed, plots endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward the girl (Marguerite de la Motte) who, drooping like a flower, dies in his arms. First swordsman of France, D'Artagnan snatches from the dark tower by the river...