Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Upley, Latvian blacksmith, tops the revolutionary pictures with one named Revolution in Bed, showing red, undressed small boys roughhousing in bed. A meticulous patriot, he also reproduces a plaque on a Massachusetts rock commemorating the visit in 1775 of John Hancock and Samuel Adams...
...such a hard time keeping one subject awake that they let him go. The other three started to play "Monopoly." They were so irascible that the psychologists deemed it best to terminate the game. After the young men had stayed awake 54½ hours they gave up, plunged into bed...
...interesting phrase: "Whereas, Harvard University endeavors to foster and maintain the ideals of truth and freedom so dear to America . . ." It should impart a pleasing glow to the heart of every Harvard man to know that the Senate of the United States does not consider his university a hot-bed of red agitation, even if the Massachusetts legislature does. We refer the representative from Dorchester to Messrs Roosevelt, Garner, and Byrns, who are choosing the commission, for a certificate of Harvard's virtue...
...weeks Fulton Bond padded about the building undetected. For a bed he had stacks of dusty documents and old law books. One night he fell asleep on a ledge. A shoe dropped off, was picked up by a policeman who did not bother to investigate its source. Early next morning Negro Bond hunted through offices until he found another pair of shoes which fitted him. Later he discovered a warm overcoat owned by the Deputy Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, appropriated...
...artistic expense accounts, thinks of hiring Oliver in his stead, Marpurgo's scheming grows more satanic. With a gloomy consciousness that he has done all he can, Elvira's husband tires of her vacillations, takes himself back to England. Elvira settles herself to lie on the bed she has made, then suddenly realizes that Oliver is an inconstant bedfellow, goes home to her husband after all. When Oliver decides he is through with Paris too, Marpurgo encourages his departure, for more reasons than one. On the boat train Oliver, by now an incorrigible ladies' man, meets another...