Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith "did well." Soon she was sitting up in bed, surrounded by flowers, inquired after by throngs of distinguished callers, visited daily by the hardworking, wide-smiling, cigar-chewing man whom she kept from becoming an actor 30 years ago when his devotion to her was expressed in nightly trips from the lower East Side to her home in the far-off Bronx...
Such was a headline with which, last fortnight, the Hearst press daringly scooped and anticipated Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. Her Majesty, unhurried, was not brought to bed until last week, then graciously gave birth to a man child, precisely ten days after the Hearst headline...
...small room in an English country house, famed Author Thomas Hardy lay sick in bed. Frail, 87, a little querulous in his talk, he still seemed unaccustomed to this invalid ease, the result of a chill he lad caught a month before. His hands, as thin and brown as claws, played nervously with the edge of his quilt. James Barrie came to talk to him; Hardy's peaked mournful face was turned sideways on its pillow, his voice seemed shrill and tired as he spoke to the writer who, with himself, shares the honor of being most respected...
...with broad jagged splashes of color, for limited programs that have been given over and over again. Paderewski takes no notice. He never reads the reviews of his concerts. His life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays in bed until afternoon, has lunch, makes himself ready for a concert, if there is one, does five-finger exercises hour upon hour. His hobbies are billiards, bridge, books, cinemas, his ranch at Paso Robles, California, his villa on Lake Geneva. He is sixty-eight years old, but contrary to vogue...
Professor Rock writes from Yunnanfu that after going through a "terrific typhoon for two and a half days with a wind velocity of 130 miles per hour and the barometer at 27.90, during which my bed was torn out of the floor and turned over while I was in it," he finally reached Japan...