Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missing from the NEA banquet was the man whom the delegates had come to honor: Walter Williams, aging president of Missouri University, founder of the journalism school, president of NEA 40 years ago. White-haired "Dean" Williams, 69, famed as "the university president who never went to college," was bed ridden at home. He made his speech of welcome over a special radio hookup. The customary five medals of honor for distinguished journalistic service were presented by the school to: The Melbourne (Australia) Argus, for being ". . . fair and tolerant, liberal . . . accurate . . . generous and kindly . . . progressive without losing touch with...
...position of Freshman proctor is much sought after, largely because of a prevailing but fallacious notion that it affords a soft berth with free bed and board and no arduous routine duties attached. However, those who are in a position to recall incidents of their supposedly halcyon freshman days in the Yard, will recall that the duties of the office, like Bacon's intellect, take all the world of human affairs as their province. The number of embarrassing incidents such as the recent affaire Wigglesworth, in which three Freshmen were caught in the toils of the law for throwing milkbottles...
...Building and in the Chicago Civic Opera House, which he built. At 7:00 sharp he dined at home and either went with Mrs. Insull to the opera, of which he was presiding angel, or stayed at home, smoking a cigar, dozing in his chair and going to bed at 9:30 or 10. For the last 20 years he never took any exercise. He never touched alcohol. His only other notable divertissement was his elaborate Hawthorne Farm at Libertyville. It broke his heart that, when he stayed out in the country, the first train that he could catch...
...came home to their wives, the 14-year-olds had to do something. Last week Chancellor Hitler offered the 600,000 to the housewives of Germany, as housemaids without pay for one year. The wives will teach the maidens how to cook, serve, wash and clean, will feed and bed them and pay their health insurance premiums. Friedrich Syrup, director of the Federal Institute for Unemployment Insurance, promised to find the girls paying jobs at the end of the "kitchen year." Cried he: "Are young German girls, your daughters, to receive as their first impression in life the curse...
...Grand Canyon, Ariz., when a fractured leg trapped H. W. Moulton in a canyon bottom, rescuers hoisted his stretcher high above their heads, toiled along a river bed for 36 hours, sometimes up to their necks in water, lugged him to safety...