Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...force surprised a Saturday night crap game. One of the Negroes dropped a gun and ran. Detective Bradshaw collared that man. Detective Davis chased another one, a Negro named Robert Powell. Some one shot. Davis shot too, then dropped, wounded mortally. Powell, wounded in the abdomen, crept home to bed. But he was found and with him a discharged revolver. He denied shooting Detective Davis. He was arrested, removed to a hospital, charged with murder...
...Supreme Court, and Mrs. Stone were there; also the Vernon Kelloggs, George Barr Baker, assistant to the Attorney General, William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Mrs. William E. Borah, and the Herbert Clark Hoover Jrs. Herbert Clark Hoover III and Peggy Anne Hoover were put to bed long before anything exciting happened...
Another more likely story is as follows: The party chieftains sat up late, all night in fact. They telephoned to Vice President Dawes in Evanston, Ill. He was most agreeable to running again if drafted. His chief proponent, Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc-Cormick went to bed believing the matter was settled. She was awakened about 6 a. m. and asked to go back to Secretary Mellon's room. The conference had decided that Mr. Dawes had been too anti-administration. Who else would please Illinois? Senator Borah had put in his word for Curtis earlier. Channing Harris...
...182.Herr Miiller, badly worried, appealed to Dr. Stresemann "as a man above party," thereby causing him to arise from his sick bed for a conference with the various leaders. Though the issue was uncertain, Germans looked to Great Dr. Stresemann to solve their cabinet crisis...
...form for the executive secretary to mention any of these affairs specifically, he is informed and believes 'on advice of counsel,' that he should state that there are some very remarkable dinners, breakfasts and suppers planned, not to mention other most desirable features. . . ! 'and so to bed...