Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colonists in their practical manner had an excellent device for speeding along courtship and saving firework at the same time. The damsel and box suitor, when the winter winds blew off simply popped into bed, fully clothed lowered a small wooden fence between them and pulled the covers high ground their necks. This was called "bunding" and it is this quaint practice that provides the central theme for "The Pursuit of Happiness," playing at the Metropolitan theatre this week...
Ohio, "Come thunderstorm, war or election, I always go to bed at 9:30 sharp, " said Ohio's small solemn Senator Simeon Davison Fess. And as the onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee slept, he was counted out of the Senate seat he has held since 1925 and Democrat Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey was counted in. "Vic" Donahey is the only man in Ohio's history to have served three straight terms as Governor. Though he beat one of the oldest of the Old Dealers, this tall husky 61-year-old Senator-elect was not an ardent...
Removal of an infected gall bladder, which is inextricably fastened to the liver, is simpler with the electric knife. After Dr. Whitaker cuts away all loose parts of the gall bladder, he sears the remainder in its liver bed. Thus he effectively prevents damage to the liver, dangerous hemorrhage, and dripping of infectious material into the peritoneum...
Wells's first marriage, when he was 25, was a failure from the start. A long romantic engagement did little to prepare either party for marital reality. Wells confesses that "quite soon" after his marriage he went to bed with his secretary, felt much better for it. When he fell in love with another woman his wife insisted on a separation; until he could get a divorce he and Amy Catherine Robbins lived cheerfully outside the pale. Since his second wife was fragile and Wells was increasingly amorous they established a modus vivendi. "In theory, I was now to have...
Early one morning in April 1906 virtually the whole Pacific Coast began to quake. In San Francisco buildings toppled, fires broke out, water pipes parted and the fire chief was killed in his bed. When news of this great disaster reached the late great Edward Henry Harriman in his Manhattan office, he boarded a train, sped West over his own Union Pacific R. R. to place at the disposal of San Francisco's earthquake victims the entire resources of his railroad empire. That done, his next purpose was to get back to New York in a hurry. He ordered...