Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work less enchanting for the associates of the charmed one. Sometimes lonely and forlorn, as when his story Peters out at the last moment, sometimes jubilant as when praise is lavished on him by the moguls for work on an assignment, the candidate often drags himself to bed weary with his troubles but nevertheless ready again in the morning to sense any item of importance in the day's events...
...backward crown colony is British Guiana, sprawling just east of Venezuela over an area of South American forests, rivers and seacoast almost as large as Great Britain. But in 1856 British Guiana was even more backward than it is today. Georgetown, its capital, did not then boast two 40-bed hotels. That year the colonists ran out of stamps, printed a small issue on a newspaper press to tide them over until the arrival of a shipment of regular stamps from England. Only one stamp of that issue is known to exist today. It is the most valuable stamp...
...headquarters, urged him to make a "dramatic exit," for Business would surely rally to him if he did so. So the General dictated a two-and-a-half page letter. By midnight it was done and on its way to the White House by messenger. The President, reading in bed, laid aside his book, took up the Johnson missive. Then and there with his own hand, Mr. Roosevelt wrote the General a note refusing his resignation...
...usually feels much better, compared with the way he felt while ill, and wants to go back to work and mingle with people. That is the danger period. He is still capable of transmitting the disease, and he is in danger of a serious relapse. He should remain in bed, or just lounge around the house, until his physician assures him he is fully cured...
Fernanda is discovered by Woodruff lying on her bed, shot through the temple. A pearl-handled revolver is on the floor. Her diamonds are missing. The verdict is suicide. But it is some time later before Woodruff, convinced that Susannah Crawford has killed Fernanda to protect her husband, her home and herself, learns the truth about the suicide...