Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harold Stribling woke up in the night. The light was on. A young Negro was in the room, clutching a hatchet. Mrs. Stribling's husband, a powerful man, lay dying in the bed, his head mangled. The Negro chopped at Mrs. Stribling, gashed her over the eye. She begged for mercy. "Well, then, go and wash your face," he said. He went with her, washed his hands. He asked to see her baby and stood over its crib for several minutes. Like a mother partridge playing broken-wing, she begged him to leave the house with her. He took...
...survivors of the Vestris who at once re-engaged passages for South America were witnesses to the probability that most people are as conscious of life's risks before something happens as they are afterwards. The Vestris disaster lessened no one's chances of dying in his bed...
There is no specific treatment. The patient, infected by his own lack of care, must stay in bed for weeks...
Seven minutes later, in Washington, the thirtieth President of the U. S., who had been reading telegraph returns alone in his study, went to bed. The thirty-first President was elected...
Doctors hope to keep pneumonia low this year. Their best advice is to guard against common colds. If colds develop, the patient should rest in bed and eat nourishing foods. If pneumonia develops, alert doctors this year have a new serum to use. Old ones required three injections to cure. The new one, announced last week by Dr. William Hallock Park of New York City's health department, the man who has done so much bacteriological work to prevent disease, requires but two injections. Its supply so far is scant. Not until December will there be enough...