Word: bed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate and shook the hands of all its members, did it all over again in the House, returned to the White House for tea, said goodby, took his lady to dinner at the Canadian Legation as guest of Sir Herbert Marler, then tumbled into a Pullman bed to sleep the hard-earned sleep of the distinguished all the way back to the Canadian border under State Department escort...
...includes Hollywood's first exposition of "the match game"-in which each player holds three or less matches in his right hand and all players guess at the total held. Good shot: Peter, Millicent and the trapper playing to see who sleeps in the cabin's only bed. Son of a Kenosha, Wis. saloon keeper, Don Ameche attended Columbia (Iowa), Marquette, Georgetown and Wisconsin Universities in quick succession. In his vacations he worked. His easiest job was testing the finished product of a mattress factory. His hardest was in a cement factory, loading trucks. When he left college...
...fourth floor of a six-story apartment house in Manhattan's midtown East side, the beautiful naked body of a 20-year-old artist's model was found stretched dead on a bed. Beneath the bed was the almost naked body of the girl's mother, also murdered. In an adjoining room, pillowed in a pool of blood, stabbed through the skull eleven times by some sharp instrument such as an ice pick or an awl, was a murdered man, a roomer in the apartment...
...asylums, are overcrowded. Of 228 mental hospitals that replied to the committee's inquiry 135 reported excess of patients over normal capacity. In 74 the crowding was more than 15% beyond the rating. Four mental hospitals contained more than 50% excess patients. General hospitals complain of their empty beds, which last year totaled 35.7% of capacity. Some of these vacancies constitute a kind of insurance against over-crowding during epidemics, fires, flood, earthquakes. But many, argued one contributor to last week's A. M. A. Journal, are due to a zest to build, although every bed...
...family reunion. In fields where there is no tutorial, all men will still be at least nominally equal, but where two classes exist "B" men will soon have to get accustomed to living in the doghouse. It can be argued that such a student has made his bed and so forth. Regardless of the moralistic grounds upon which such an attitude will be explained, there is one factor in the creation of the two plans which is easily overlooked. It is this...