Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine. They took the former by slim but effective majorities. By crushing the "Old Regulars," which had not lost a New Orleans election in 50 years, Senator Long revenged the organization's break with him last year, its defeat of his candidate for mayor in January. Ordered to bed by his physician after the strain of the primary, Senator Long planned to proceed by having the Legislature oust Mayor Walmsley, who he said will be taking "an early trip to China...
...restaurant, went to France to find new recipes. His Oysters Rockefeller were so named because he knew "no richer name for their richness." Overindulgence in his café brûlo diabolique (coffee poured into a silver goblet of flaming spices and brandy) sent O. Henry to a bed from which he never rose. In his restaurant he permitted no smoking or coffee until after meals...
Died. Countess Catherine Breshkovskaya, 90, "grandmother of the Russian revolution"; after long illness; in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Of rich, noble birth, she plotted revolution against the Tsar, lived and worked with Russian peasants, was exiled to Siberia in 1878. In 1917, Kerensky, who was at her death bed last week, ordered her back to Russia where she was received with tumultuous acclaim. When the Kerensky regime collapsed, she was again exiled from Russia...
Labor pains roved through her. She cried for help. No one came. She tried to hold the baby back at least until daylight. But there could be no waiting. Mrs. Toner got out of bed and like solitary females of primitive times, bore her baby, an 8-lb. girl, without any assistance...
Upstairs Mrs. Speer was putting their three young children to bed when she heard a sudden crash downstairs, like an exploding light bulb. When she got downstairs she found her husband with blood streaming from his arm and breast. There were two jagged holes in the window...