Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt learned that His Majesty likes a down puff at the foot of his bed, but Her Majesty does not. She equipped their beds in the White House with new springs & mattresses on the advice of her sons that the old ones were rock hard. She worried about the water being turned on in Mr. Roosevelt's "dream cottage" at Hyde Park, where royalty would picnic Sunday. Princess Te Ata, a Choctaw-Chickasaw half-breed from Oklahoma, was engaged to tell Indian tales at the Hyde Park hot-dog fest. Her newspaper syndicate announced that she would describe Their...
Dorothy Thompson wakes up at ten o'clock and reads furiously for two or three hours in bed. Along about noon she gets up, dresses fast, then dictates her column. She has three secretaries, named Madeleine, Madeline, and Madelon (she distinguishes them by their last names). One is always at the Herald Tribune answering mail and digging up research and one or two go to her apartment to help her while she works. Miss Thompson seldom goes to her office because the telephone never stops ringing...
...want to be courteous to me, won't you, when you go to bed at night, just say a prayer for me, as I go forth as a good Christian soldier to heal our wounds...
...counties, with a total population of 8,000,000, had no hospitals. Most of the hospitals in the remaining 45% were small, ill-equipped, seldom used. Greatest hospital need is in rural areas of the 14 Southern States, which have an average of one general hospital bed for every 1,000 citizens. (General U. S. average: 3.3 beds...
Last week an old man, fighting for breath, was wheeled into Chicago's Mercy Hospital. Five grave doctors hovered over his bed, took samples of his sputum to type the pneumococci that had attacked him, samples of his blood to type him for transfusions. They covered him with an oxygen tent, inoculated him with pneumonia serum, fed him the famed pneumonia specific, sulfapyridine. Mercy Hospital's Patient No. 1939-2468 was a very special case: he was the junior partner of America's most famous medical team-Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. As it does with the greatest...