Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patronage. Resting in bed at San Jose, Jim Farley had to give audience to a number of politicians who could not be kept out. He did not seriously mind. In Washington he seldom walks into the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel, where he lives, without half a dozen men jumping up to wring his hand and say: "Oh, Jim. I want to speak to you a minute about...
...plans are indefinite," said tall, gangling 19-year-old Franklin Jr. "We are going to President Arias' dinner with father, and then, early to bed...
...that was long ago and Tesla has lingered on into a twilight of semiobscurity. His hotel room is now his only laboratory, his brain his only tool. When callers importune him he takes a bath or goes to bed. When he talks about his work his deep-set blue eyes burn with an icy fire. He walks prodigious distances through the city streets. His most valued friends are the New York Public Library's somnolent pigeons. A life-long bachelor, Dr. Tesla is tall, spare, erect, parchment-skinned, beak-nosed. The mustache he once wore is gone...
...second wife, four children, salaries as hotel manager under the receivership and as president of a solvent subsidiary, College Inn Food Products Co. Hotelman Marshall had his gay pink house on Lake Michigan, his ship-cabin tap room, a handsome table that sinks through the floor and a Ming bed that holds seven people comfortably...
...Seneca, Kans., neighbors were glad that bed-ridden Marietta Bishop was being so well cared for by her Daughter Myrtle. For two and a half years Myrtle had given them news of the old lady, had made them write her notes, had trudged to the post-office every month to collect her mother's $40 Civil War pension. When Myrtle arrived for the 30th time for the pension, the postmaster decided to walk back to Mother Bishop's with her. He found part of Mother Bishop cremated in a fruit jar, part of her stuck in a trunk...