Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Untrammeled life-long health (except for six babies and an attack of typhoid) is superadded to Eleanor Roosevelt's other capacities. She is out of bed at dawn's crack, doing setting-up exercises, swimming, or riding her old mare Dot. She eats like an ostrich: anything, everything. After breakfast she answers mail, dictates her column, which has not once been tardy through fault of hers. A somewhat shrill yet mellow chortle is the tune of her whole day. (She has been taking voice lessons to improve on the radio...
Forty-eight hours later the bed-ridden Queen lying in Tirana's temporary Royal Palace could hear the roar of whole flights of planes overhead-planes that could not possibly be Albania's, since the country had only two. They dropped no bombs but leaflets fluttered down in the spring breeze announcing that "friendly" Italian troops were arriving that day to take over the country and "reestablish order, peace and justice." At four Albanian seaports, the nearest one (Durazzo) only 25 miles from Tirana, warships soon hove into sight, began bombarding. Troops were landed. A skirmish...
Last week, as solemn as cricketers, eight teams of seasoned marblers (six men to a team) massed around a concrete bed at Tinsley Green to knuckle it out for the 352nd marbles championship. This match was the most momentous ever: the recently organized Marbles Control Board hopes to send this year's championship six across the water to challenge a U. S. team. Gravely each man in turn studied the positions of the marbles in the circle, gravely knuckled down, tried to knock his opponents' marbles off the bed with an accurate flick of his "tolly" (shooter...
...Washington's WJSV. Rabid fan John Nance Garner called him "the World's Greatest Baseball Announcer." Thousands cheered him when he once dared obscene and unidentified telephoners to meet him somewhere and fight like men.* When he broke his ankle last summer and broadcast from a hospital bed, small boys sneaked past guards, climbed through transoms, even hid in ambulances to visit Arch. Those who couldn't get in shouted questions at his window, and Arch shouted answers back...
...these ears the radio pours its ride-'em-cowboy adventure and hearty-uncle promise of dandy premiums in return for mailed-in cereal box tops, bread labels, candy wrappers. Hapless parents, besides footing the bills, have a job on their hands in getting their supercharged, excited youngsters to bed. Result is that children's programs come in for persistent beefing, not only by U. S. parents but by the more-feared Federal Communications Commission...