Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Road Bed Warmer. The enterprising Chamber of Commerce at Reno, Nev., has long discussed methods by which the arrival of tourists along the frequently snow-bound Sierra highway may be facilitated. They approached a solution of their difficulties when someone suggested that the snowy road be underlaid with pipes and that the pipes then, be filled with steam, thus warming the road and melting the barrier upon its surface. Sixteen miles of the cold-beleaguered turnpike could be so coddled; boilers at four mile intervals would keep the water warm, wood from the near forests would warm the boilers...
...gnomelike figure of Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, remitted its busy comings and goings in Mexico City last week and quietly lay, bolstered among fat white pillows, in bed. Ambassador Morrow had a fever; nothing serious, just a touch of grippe. Affairs of state awaited his mending. But there was no pause in the restless activity of Mr. Morrow's mind, which, accustomed to strenuous exercise, cried out for diversion at least. When his physician refused him permission to work, Mr. Morrow said: "All right, then, I will enjoy myself as I always do when...
...seen to sway, and then to hurry from the House. A moment later he sped by motor up broad Whitehall to his nearby official residence at No. 11 Downing Street-next door to famed "No. 10," the residence of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Soon Mr. Churchill was tucked into bed. A doctor who could not presume to say I-told-you-so declared firmly that Chancellor Churchill had a seemingly not dangerous case of influenza but must not stir abroad for at least a week...
...late irascible father haunt him as he climbs to his old room which is filled with prep-school photos and trophies and the heavy perfume of flowers. In the sudden electricity, the most beautiful girl he ever saw sits bolt upright in the middle of his old bed, and orders him out of the house. He returns next day to find her vanished. But Author Miller can be relied upon to make out of her not the psychic fantasy of Bentham's weary mind, but the heroine of an excellent movie scenario, rivaled as such only by "Her Mother...
...practice except a few balls which he drove off the roof of his hotel into the Thames, and that he had been acting in the cinema all winter. Told that he would have to play anyway, he hired a detective to get him out of bed on time...