Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman writing for the daily press has more readers than a portly, hearty, white-haired old lady who lives in a little house high above San Francisco's Golden Gate. Nearly blind, ailing from diabetes and shingles, she celebrated her 72nd birthday last week in bed. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors stopped work long enough to pass a resolution wishing her "many happy returns." The Chief of Police sent flowers. So did Mayor Angelo Rossi, who is by trade a florist. But what warmed the old heart of Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils most was a pair...
Realizing that under the proper circumstances the inevitable can be forced to precede the usual formalities, Mrs. Nordoff tricks Cecilia into believing that the way to the alter lies through the bed. Nordoff scores a Phyrric victory and is presently back in his wife's arms. All this familiar activity may or may not prove the assertion of the title, but it is performed to the tune of skillful and fresh dialogue by a company of thespians whose ability justifies their prominence...
...Watch the woman, Drummond,' I shouted, for suddenly from the bed where the invalid had been lying sprang a gorgeously beautiful creature, a sinister something gleaming in her hand...
...that force which restricts terminal velocity to 119 m.p.h. instead of infinity and appears in consciousness as a very gentle, evenly distributed, generalized, superficial pressure on the surface of the body toward the earth. The nearest possible similar earthly experience is that of being lowered slowly into a great bed of softest down...
...first dance in Paris "Mile." Baker wore feathers on her rump, bananas dangling from her belt, nothing else. Parisians were raving overnight about her lithe bronze body, her wild sense of rhythm. Soon she was able to conduct her own night club, buy a chateau, a bed which was supposed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette. To be near her collection of birds and monkeys she had cages built in the house. She ate fish heads and roosters' combs served with special sauces, toured Europe with her own revue, walked the boulevards of Budapest with two swans...