Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since all the Nahlin's regular staterooms are on lower decks and likely to be hot, the walnut furniture of the top-deck library was lugged out and walnut bedroom furniture, bought at Southampton, lugged in. After one look at the large walnut bed in which His Majesty was expected to sleep, a trusted aide condemned it as "too formal," sent it back and had an informal little number rushed aboard at the last moment. According to the Nahlin's proud owner, "Britain's Richest Widow" Lady Yule: "She is the most beautiful yacht in the world...
...bed at 10 o'clock one night last week Farmer George Behlmann, who lives three miles north of the St. Louis Airport, heard an airplane overhead. Said he next...
...wife said, 'That's funny. I wonder if it crashed.'... I dressed and went out. Other people whom I met said the plane had crashed. It was very foggy and I couldn't see 20 feet ahead of me ... so I went back to bed." Had he pushed on to the boundaries of his farm, George Behlmann would have come upon the scene of the third wreck of a U. S. airliner...
...answer reached the U. S. from Britain. Dr. C. H. Stuart-Harris of London's National Institute for Medical Research was scrutinizing some ferrets sick with influenza. One of the little animals sneezed right in the doctor's face. Forty-five hours later he was in bed with influenza. Last week Dr. Stuart-Harris was up & about again, able to proceed on the assumption that ferret influenza is the same as the malady...
...belt the morning's desultory dickering petered out. In Britain the Liverpool Cotton Market had closed for the day, but traders would get the U. S. cotton news after the races and the cricket matches. In Bombay, Shanghai, Osaka the Orient's cotton men roused themselves from bed or stirred impatiently in club chairs. In Egypt, where the world's finest cotton is grown on the banks of the Nile, the cotton men of Alexandria waited dinner...