Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplished his greatest works. He helped frame the restrictive immigration act of 1924 and he has administered it with scarcely a hitch. He seldom misses an opportunity to write about immigration; and who can do it better than this man who was once pulled out from under a bed in Wales...
Cliff Collins, farmer, went to bed early that night. His house, with every window dark, stood at the edge of some cottonwoods. His daughter, a thin girl of 20 who had cooked for him since his wife died, slept in the next room; his son slept downstairs with his boots on;; his dog slept in the woodshed...
...Beulah Lewis, widow, living alone, read the Atlanta Constitution until she got sleepy and then went up to bed, taking the cat with her. She was half undressed when the gentlemen in white began breaking down her front door. They roared when, having shot their way into the bedroom, the cat confronted them, licking nervous chops, on the top of a bedpost. One man fired from the hip; the cat tumbled off the post. The woman had fainted but they revived her. Then they stripped her, beat her unconscious...
...sick with a cold. I have gone to bed-and cannot see you-I am so sorry, but it will have to be another time...
...Mary" had ever written an opera. It being his very first assignment he did not know whether "Our Mary's" alleged cold was an operatic brand of applesauce or not. He had heard that no diva ever avoided publicity and as for "Our Mary" being in bed-well, he guessed lots of people had received in their bedrooms before this, in health and in sickness, for better or for worse. Still, he had been as persistent as even a cub reporter should be, probably. The hotel manager seemed to think so. Back at the office it would be easy...