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Word: bedded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon a 36-foot, red-satin bed called "The Ardent Couch" an unclad Venus lies dreaming. Of her four uninhibited dreams, the first-an underwater vision called "Venus's Pre-natal Château Beneath the Water"-is the real crowd-catcher. A long glass tank is filled with such subaqueous décor as a fireplace, typewriters with funguslike rubber keys, rubber telephones, a man made of rubber ping-pong bats, a mummified cow, a supine rubber woman painted to resemble the keyboard of a piano. Whatever this may mean as art, the exhibitors did not dilly-Dali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Conspicuously absent from all last week's super-functions in Washington was the fine, bearded figure of the U. S. Chief Justice. Stricken with a duodenal ulcer, Charles Evans Hughes, 77, lay in his bed at home, so sick that his friends regretfully concluded he would never again take his place upon the Supreme Bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Absentee | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...drunken brawl over a girl's favors. In Nachod, Germans claimed the Czech policeman had been killed in a fight between Germans and Czechs. The Czech version was that German police had invaded the Czech police station and had fired at the Czech policeman sitting on his bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crime and Crime | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Bright & early on her 18th birthday, starry-eyed Post-Debutante Brenda Diana Duff Frazier hopped out of bed, answered the telephone, told newsmen: "It's going to be a very quiet day. I'll probably lunch with mummy (Mrs. Frederic Watriss)*and go to the theatre with my grandmother, Lady Williams-Taylor, but that's all. I haven't decided yet what I'll wear." She was still undecided at noon when a Postal Telegraph songster arrived with flowers and caroled Happy Birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Catnapping in her bedroom before her evening performance of The Philadelphia Story, stormy, eel-hipped Actress Katharine Hepburn woke to see a burglar about to loot her dressing table. She shrieked: "What the hell are you doing there?", leaped out of bed. The burglar, scared witless, hurtled down the stairs, Miss Hepburn after him, escaped in a waiting car. No jewels were missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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