Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the next night he had better news. After 1 a.m. he was sitting up in bed working on his stamp collection (he had been presented that clay with the first of an issue of private stamps issued for the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth) when word was brought to him that Congress had adjourned. Happy, he turned out the light and went to sleep conscious that he had been blessed as few presidents are: he had 1) got Congress to pass most of the laws he wanted, and 2) got rid of Congress...
...himself. Chancellor Chamberlain wound up beaming, "I need only add that we propose to make this payment in silver [cries of 'Hear! Hear!']. . . ." Amid further cheering and compliments to President Roosevelt in which M. P.'s of every British party joined the House went home to bed. "The supreme merit of this arrangement," wisely observed the London Times, "is that it is neither default, which was unthinkable, nor payment in full which would have merely left the old dilemma." Specifically Britain, which owed $75,950,000 last week, made a silver token payment worth some...
...Handsome Adolf's personal liaison officer in Vienna, Theodor Habicht. Weeks ago Chancellor Hitler tried to make Herr Habicht immune from arrest by appointing him German Legation Press Attache in Vienna, but the Austrian Government refused him diplomatic immunity. Last week he was routed out of bed at six in the morning. Police seized numbers of incriminating documents...
...Erwin Wasserback. Dr. Wasserback's position as a diplomat had not only long been accepted but he was in addition a Catholic priest. No Austrian bombs have burst in Berlin, but German police promptly called at his house with a warrant. Dr. Wasserback hopped out of bed, picked up the telephone, called Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in London...
When Nazi policemen threatened to kick the door down Dr. Wasserback submitted to arrest. In London Millimetternich-Dollfuss made protest to the Chief German Delegate and arranged for another formal protest from the Papal Nuncio in Berlin. Then, sure of the world's sympathy, he went back to bed. Dr. Wasser-back was released in a few hours, ordered from the country. Embarrassed Nazis ordered the German Press to suppress all mention of his arrest...