Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That a formality among "Keys" men is wearing their pins at all times, in all places: in swimming, inside the bathing suit; in bed, upon the pajamas; bathing, in the hand or mouth. (It is said that once a pin was swallowed, causing its owner excruciating pain and a long journey to find a doctor to whom he could speak freely...
...what, last week, did Paderewski rise from a sick bed...
...found, however, that this place would not be suitable for erection of the building. At the spot which had been chosen, it was discovered that there was a bed of gravel about 25 feet deep, making it impractical to build a large structure upon...
...central character. The title has no lack of support: at least seven times in the first act he is told that, you know, he is exactly like an oyster, and he speculates in an ingenious diversion of ways as to what happens to the oyster when it leaves its bed. He gets mixed up in his chum's love affairs, attempts suicide because he has been called a traitor and traitors should be shot, and variously displays the pellucid simplicity of his nature, like the dear old boy he is. Norman Fanchild plays the Oyster; and he does things...
...William Dean Howell's Tuscan Cities, and remained for some time on the Continent, living in Paris, in Italy. He knew Henry James in the days when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from the shock of calling on De Maupassant and finding him, not unaccompanied, in bed. He was a friend of Whistler, whose charm had an immense influence upon him and whose acid humor was not unlike his own. He drank wine with Andrew Lang; he knew Edmund Gosse and F. Hopkinson Smith, "whose books," he said of the latter, "I never could stand?...