Word: bed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yanked the mattress onto the floor and carried the sheets and blankets into his own room. Then he returned to put the mattress back on the bed. He was surprised on lifting it to find his roommate left on the floor, still asleep...
Returning from his vacation late Thursday night, an Eliot, House Junior found his bed unmade, decided to use the bedding of his roommate, who never used his bed anyway...
Last week on New Year's Eve, Joe walked into the hospital and apologized. He felt fine, he said, but he had decided it was wrong of him to leave. The astounded staff rushed him back to bed where an examination disclosed that his healing heart had suffered no ill effects whatever...
...Darwin, North Australia, Filipino Ignale Iglasius, 80, who had slept in a coffin every night for 30 years "to get used to it," died in a hospital bed...
American English's editors have done considerable research into the etymology and practice of bundling (partly undressed, unmarried couples occupying the same bed for warmth). Said an early Connecticut historian (1781): "Notwithstanding the great modesty of the females ... it is thought but a piece of civility to ask her to bundle: a custom as old as the first settlement in 1634." Another writer reported: "When a girl, that was old enough to be married, had a suitor who had been a few times to see her, the parents, if they approved of the connection, would-what they called-bundle...