Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were looted-the college escaping because a young Nationalist soldier who had a sister studying there arrived with a detachment to guard the campus. ¶ The Japanese suffered most. Several women servants at their consulate were stripped and subjected to carnal violence. The Japanese consul, who was sick in bed, barely managed to escape with his life, saved nothing but a portrait of his Emperor, the sublime Son of Heaven. Later a Japanese officer, ostentatiously without arms, landed from a Japanese gunboat in the harbor, and with great coolness brought 160 Japanese citizens in safety from the city...
...hundred years ago, on his death bed, Ludwig van Beethoven whispered: "Applaud, friends, the comedy is finished." An immortal, it has been said, knows nothing of his immortality...
Three days from Manhattan influenza developed among the enlisted men. At the ship's pharmacy the bottle of famed C. C.* pills was set aside and the bottle of aspirin tablets put ready. Sick men went to bed until the hospital was full; then they were placed in cabins. At Panama 167 were sick of influenza. Eleven men developed mumps, infectious disease that added to fear aboard. To restrain the epidemic officers forbade enlisted men to mount above the main deck, first-class passengers to descend from the promenade. Continuous entertainment kept morale...
...Cambridge only a short while and returning from a dance, was trying to find the club where I was spending the night. I thought that I had found the right house and, was stealthily entering a window so as not to awaken the people who were already in bed, when the lights suddenly went on and a nervous man with a revolver ordered me to 'Put them...
...learning is tucked in his bed...