Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada are opposed to planning for scarcity by the restriction of production. . . ." That night the President of the U. S., who is a master at conciliating even his most critical callers, and the Prime Minister of Canada, noted in his own country as a great "harmonizer," went to bed under the same roof, each thinking the other was a fine fellow...
Meteorological cataclysms were the terror of Blennerhassett's life. At the approach of thunderstorms, he bolted all the windows, buried himself in bed. Consequently, he built his island home of wood "to resist earthquakes." A noble edifice with two spacious wings, its lawns and gardens were as fine as any in England. Inside, "foreign frescoes colored the ceilings, the walls were hung with costly pictures, and the furniture, imported from Paris and London, was rich, costly and tasteful." The dining room sideboard offered a hospitality as fine as could be found in Virginia, for Blennerhassett Island, discovered by Surveyor...
...time I was held in preventive arrest-more than a year-they believed I was in a hospital with a broken leg. When I was allowed to see them several times, the stage was set for them. I was taken under guard to a clinic, stretched out in bed and my leg swathed in bandages before they were admitted. "I don't care about myself any more. It is the children's future which concerns me. The court will decide my fate, and I pray that the jury will be kind and let me leave with my children...
...gained from scopolamine confessions. In Kansas City, an alert detective chief named Thomas Higgins heard about the Birmingham successes. Last fortnight he thanked his stars that he had. One morning Higgins' men were called to a room in a Kansas City apartment hotel where they found on a bed the naked corpse of a woman with cuts and bruises on her face, tooth marks on her body, blood on the pillow. Her clothing, torn in strips, was strewn on the floor. Identified as a Mrs. Florence Harlass, she was found by the coroner to have died of a heavy...
...expected nothing from that poem. On Aug. 1, his mother died. Next day one of his dearest friends was drowned. On Aug. 12, in the depths of despondency, he composed his "outrageous" will that carried its explicit provision for the "disposal of his carcass." He slept in an enormous bed decorated with Oriental splendor, kept four skulls by his writing desk, limped moodily about his dilapidated estate, plunged into dissipation with old school friends and pretty country girls. Six months later he made his first speech in the House of Lords, saw Childe Harold published, awoke one morning to find...