Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having slept in Abraham Lincoln's bed at the White House, Scot MacDonald moved to the British Embassy for his last days in Washington, rode out early in the afternoon to doff his hat at the tomb of Woodrow Wilson. Lest anyone suppose Mr. Hoover had told him to do this to ensure Democratic Senatorial votes for a future treaty, Embassy officials announced that he went of his own volition...
...cast anonymous ballots for or against another strike, to test the sentiment. They reported 2,883 votes against striking, 255 for. Observers could learn no connection between the Bemberg and Glanzatoff labor situation and the discovery last week that the acting President of these mills was on his bed, with his wrists slashed, dead. In Rockhill, S. C., the United Textile Workers held a conference, proclaimed "No Communists wanted here," announced their firm intention of organizing the whole southern textile industry under the A. F. of L. At Washington, Senator Wheeler of Montana introduced, at the request of President William...
...Connecticut Ave., went President Hoover. There in bed lay his good old friend Theodore Elijah Burton, 77, suffering complications after an attack of grippe he had last month. It was the President's second call since the senator fell ill. He stayed some little time, the chunky, healthy, 55-year-old executive talking with, and listening to, the venerable legislator, scholar, statesman, peace-seeker...
...Yale footballer (1909); in Manhattan; not of alcoholic psychosis as reported by Manhattan's assistant medical examiner, but of an overdose of chloral hydrate. At a private sanitarium, to which she had gone in haste for a neural treatment, she took off her coat, sat down on a bed, fell over dead. On her body policemen found, cared for some $300,000 worth of jewelry. Lying in state at Campbell's famed Funeral Parlors, few came to see her; many saw her recent cinema across the street. Born in Kansas City, Mo., her first part, aged seven...
After Carry's second marriage, to Lawyer-Minister David Nation of Warrensburg, Kan., the daughter went insane and Carry Nation herself became very peculiar. Every night at bed-time Mrs. Nation told her troubles to God, dragging herself around the room on her knees. At times she felt herself suspended over a precipice by a heavenly hand; at other times she saw two snakes. She heard wings beating, saw angels and devils, met Jesus in the basement. A proud reminiscence: "I was often considered crazy on the subject of religion." At length she heard a voice exclaim from...