Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he sleeps it is beneath a satin coverlet with a portrait of himself as a naked leper at the head of his bed. The very furniture is orchideous, inscrutable. There is a walled garden with very narrow gates, for Signor D'Annunzio hates fat men or women. Sometimes, so Gabriele D'Annunzio says, the shade of Franz Liszt enters and plays his certainly not mechanical piano until the poet is in an ecstasy. Sometimes, instead, come very charming women. Signorina Marie Melato, popular actress, was entertained at Gardonne while the pilgrims waited at Assisi last week, and later...
Died. Burt William Johnson, 37, sculptor; at Claremont, Calif., from a heart attack. His work on a group of figures for the Fine Arts Building of Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) was heroically completed in bed and from a wheel chair while the sculptor was suffering from influenza and heart trouble. His casket was covered with apple and peach blossoms, instead of stiff "floral pieces." A memorial service was held in Bridges Hall of Music where the fountain, "Spanish Music," perhaps the sculptor's best known work, gives inspiration...
...reports of a new dormitory to be built on De Wolfe Street, which will be furnished with a sybaritic luxury and offer the conveniences of porters, servants and breakfasts in bed, recalls the sterner way in which our academic forbears lived at Harvard three centuries...
Running under forced draft the Chateau Thierry reached San Francisco, from New York by way of the Panama Canal, in 13 days, 22 hours, a record run. At San Francisco, the shipboard epidemic was under control. Only 75 men still suffered. Ambulances took bed-ridden cases from the dock to the hospitals. Undertakers called for four...
...took small stock. Gangrene eats away the feet upon which he so confidently stood all his life. His toes drop right off in a basin. Some say it was the conjure wrought by one of his many women when she laid his wife's death sheet over his bed. Some say it was his curse for biting a hole in a preacher's cheek. Most likely it was the poison with which he defied God and nature, the boll-weevil killer that none would help him spray in the fields. He comes back from the hospital only...