Word: bed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Composer Davis takes her new career as a serious composer seriously. Out of bed at 7:30 to get the children off to school, she is at her composing by 10. After three or four hours of steady work, she goes off to play golf, drink tea, cocktails, attend a concert. Husband Meyer she sees only intermittently because he is always on the road with one of his bands. "Isn't that goofy?" asks Composer Davis...
...Boston, maligned Mae West was breakfasting in bed. "Why. the independent theatre owners call me the mortgage-lifter." she burbled. "When business is bad they just re-run one of my pictures. . . . The box-office business in the entire industry has dropped off 30%. . . . The only picture to make real money was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and that would have made twice as much if they'd had me play Snow White...
...half-day journey last week in pretty much the same way as the other passengers on the Overland Limited, to which his car was attached. Accompanied by his favorite pet, a nine-year-old pony named Pumpkin, and his trainer, laconic Tom Smith, who slept on a home-sized bed next to him, Seabiscuit occupied one third of the 80-foot horse car* Owner Howard had chartered (for $1,500) for the trip. He watched the scenery through his car windows, walked around for exercise, was carefully fed only water and hay lest he get trainsick. Unlike most thoroughbreds...
...clock there had been 3,000 persons on hand, listening to anarchists denounce the brutality of the police and demand the eight-hour day, but by ten there were only a few hundred. The mayor, who had waited around in expectation of trouble, went home, and went to bed. The last speaker was finishing his talk when a delegation of 180 policemen marched from the station a block away to break up what remained of the meeting. They stopped a short distance from the speaker's wagon. As a captain ordered the meeting to disperse, and the speaker cried...
...Joseph Pershing. Commander-in-chief of the A.E.F. during the World War; and Muriel Bache Richards, 23, oldest granddaughter of Philanthropist Jules Semon Bache; in Manhattan. Most remarkable guest at the wedding ceremony: John Joseph Pershing. Two months ago the No. 1 U. S. War hero took to his bed suffering from heart disease and a kidney ailment, on one occasion sank so low his physicians announced he would not live the night. Sufficiently recovered was the doughty 77-year-old last week to journey to New York, pose for photographers, refuse a wheel chair to attend his only surviving...