Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...getting down to the bed-rock of national consciousness Professor Fay can be of the greatest service to those who are working in the cause of world peace...
...this morning while others read scare heads and look forward to the afternoon's adventures, the Vagabond can only sadly turn over in bed and think of what might have been. Nevertheless, he is still looking for good news to come out of the air this afternoon...
...fortnight prior the 88-year-old War Prime Minister had returned to Paris from his summer cottage, told friends that he did not expect to live through the winter. Early last week his valet found the old Tiger in bed, breathing heavily, unconscious from a sudden heart attack. Worried specialists rushed to his bedside, administered oxygen, strychnine, summoned his son, his daughter, his grandson. They privately gave up hope that the old man could live through the night. They forgot the implacable will of Georges Clémenceau. The man who carried France through the dark winter...
...write none will be remembered permanently. Although I have had some success in journalism. I agree with the verdict my friend, John Morley,* rendered when he spoke of me as having had a squandered life." Twinkling, he added: "Any man is a damned fool who can work in bed and doesn...
...record tells of a bedridden observer who watched the futile efforts of one of the insects to climb upon the bed from the floor. At length the bug crawled up the wall, moved out across the ceiling and dropped on its destination...