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Word: bedded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After all this the newlywed Crown Prince went to bed with a fever of 102°. But he was not through. Before he is really Fawziya's husband, he will have to travel with his bride to Iran (in a separate stateroom), be married the Persian way, feast 96 hours on goat's meat, watch nautch girls (professional dancers) do their stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Fevered Nuptials | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Night," Dali showed in another window a mannequin lying on a bed of glowing coals under a stuffed trophy, which the artist described as "the decapitated head and the savage hoofs of a great somnambulist buffalo extenuated by a thousand years of sleep." Working all one night with Bonwit's regular window crew, Surrealissimo Dali finished in time for the store's opening at 9:30 a. m. Then he retired to his hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dali's Display | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...keeps the average sedentary young executive from toning up at court tennis is mainly that there are only twelve courts in the U. S., and a proper court costs some $100,000, must be plastered with a secret British cement apocryphally said to be made from silt from the bed of the Thames. Courts are 110 ft. long, 38 ft. wide, with a net-covered recess behind the server's court called a dedans, in which the spectators sit. On the left of the server's court, and continuing along the same wall beyond the low-slung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Refugee children refuse to listen when their schoolmates tune in Adolf Hitler's broadcasts to the U. S. One little girl at Manumit could not be persuaded to take off her underwear when she went to bed, had nightmares in which she dreamed that German storm troopers broke into her room. A boy constantly drew pictures of machine guns, tanks, people shooting Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Melting-Pot Schools | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Disney, Okla., when dynamite blasting on the Grand River dam site prevented his eggs from hatching, Justice of the Peace C. S. Bivens equipped his hens' nests with bed springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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