Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Definitely convalescent last week was the Lord Privy Seal, spruce young Captain Anthony Eden, who was put to bed with "heart strain" after his round of diplomatic fencing bouts with Hitler, Stalin and Pilsudski (TIME, April 1 et seq.). Chirped a glib, anonymous political correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "They refer to 'heart strain'. . . . The actual trouble, I understand, is thrombosis" [clogging of an artery...
Each compartment has its own radio, mirror, table, washstand with hot & cold running water. At the rear of the coach is a men's lavatory and women's lounge with lavatory, dressing table, mirror, settee. Passengers prepare for bed in perfect privacy, standing up. On duty at all times is a porter. The powerplant, a 6-cyl. Hall-Scott, is at the rear as in most modern buses, is operated by the driver with the aid of compressed-air power-boosters...
Babe, Rabbit in Bed...
...choice placed toward the front of the train. In ambulances it is also routine for the head of the patient to be at the front of the conveyance. This brings to mind the practice of Charles Dickens and other Victorian notables of carrying a compass and having the hotel bed placed with the head to the north...
...instrument seemed capable of a thousand effects. It was full-toned and rich, eerie and soft. In a modern pipe organ, similar sounds depend on electric blowers. A separate pipe is required for each separate tone. Mechanism of the new instrument is all in the console, in a bed of magnets, coils and whirling disks. With the turn of a switch, the motor was on and at the touch of a key, electrical vibrations generated the sound through an ordinary amplifier...