Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...locked them up. That evening they walked around the town, which is one big mining camp, showing chunks of glittering rock to the oldtimers. The chunks glittered so brightly and looked so rich that the oldtimers said: "Hell, that ain't gold!" The boys went to bed dubious...
...Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, and a certain stirring of religious mysticism within him which he had tried in vain to sully, down, and conquer by debauch. Perhaps in the young man's troubled mind Death and God seemed strangely opposed, for he had just come from the sick bed of a favorite grandfather, then dying of cancer of the stomach...
...This is an ideal place for men to refit morally and physically for the battle of life," and "no man is asked or expected to work beyond his capacity or to injure himself by overdoing things. . . . Hot supper is served to every newcomer, and then a shower bath and bed for a good night's rest in warmth and comfort. . . . With the morning comes a revelation in breakfasts and everyone goes to work with pick and shovel making roads" (TIME, Jan. 17). Guest Albert E. Sartain discovers himself paradoxically thankful that it is Mr. Snook...
...night Signor Mussolini lies between silken sheets in a huge, carved bed at the Villa Torlonia. A massive prie dieu stands at his bedside. A domed and gilded ceiling canopies above. From the sumptuous milieu he rose up refreshed one morning last week and spoke biting words to French feminist Vahdah Jeanne Bordeaux, who interviewed him after breakfast on the topic "Women...
...WIND OF COMPLICATION- Susan Ertz-Appleton ($2). Once upon a time one furnished one's overnight guest with fiddlers to lull him to sleep. Now it is considered sufficient if guest-rooms contain a reachable reading-in-bed-lamp and, better than a novel, a book of short stories. The author of Madame Claire and After Noon now supplies a collection to which no hostess need hesitate to call attention before saying at the door, "Well, goodnight...