Word: bed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fancy patch of cinematic needlework stretched over the hoop-la idea of a songwriter who works only in his sleep. Fanciest flight: frantic Song Thieves Jack Oakie and Milton Berle trying to cure Sleep-writer Bob Burns's insomnia by tossing a lamb back & forth across his bed. shortcutting by having him start counting at 1,000. Current & Choice...
...South's Robert E. Lee, for eleven years the rector of Christ Church. He was preparing his Sunday sermon and his wife sat quietly nearby. They were both slightly deaf, and when they heard a sound they said something about a motor backfiring. Presently Mrs. Lee went to bed. Then the .38 outside cracked again and Dr. Lee slumped down, shot clean through the temple...
Manhattan tabloids shivered deliciously all last week. A bigwig racketeer whom the police had been after for six months had been captured in bed with a red-headed showgirl, which is the sort of story that gives tabloid editors the courage to go on. The racketeer was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, lawyer for Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer and, since Mr. Flegenheimer's death by violence in 1935, the head of the biggest, crookedest, most profitable racket in the U. S.-the Harlem numbers game. The showgirl was Hope Dare (Rose Ricker), whose chief professional appearance...
...found hanging by his necktie from the top of a folding bed, which had been pushed into its place against the wall, according to police. He was completely clothed and was wearing a smoking jacket. He had evidently been studying up to the hour of his death since opened law books and papers were still lying on his desk...
...Going to Get Married! is a bustling, sensible little volume that tells brides what size sheets to buy (108 in. by 90 for a double bed), what furniture and what frame of mind are best suited for setting up housekeeping. Miss Wiley believes that one of the big troubles with marriage is the honeymoon. She draws a terrible picture of bride & groom rushing about getting ready for the wedding, buying things, getting nervous and exhausted and then having to start on a trip. "Where is the ecstasy?" she asks gloomily. "Where the bliss?" She also thinks that no bride should...