Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...springs to attention at the first notes of the national anthem, remains rigid until the end. Because Elizabeth Faffs husband is a loyal WNYC fan and a patriot to boot, Mrs. Faff had a problem on her hands. She wrote the station that he made her get out of bed both times, complained: "It is rather upsetting....Have you any suggestions?" Stumped, WNYC referred the letter to Mayor La-Guardia. The Mayor was stumped too, asked the Army, the Navy, the D.A.R. what Mrs. Faff should do. Nobody seemed to know...
Outraged, betrayed, dejectedly off to bed last night, the first Friday in years without having read TIME. Brooding thoughts while seeking escape in sleep: Whistler's Mother with eyebrows plucked, lips rouged and fingernails enameled a brilliant scarlet. The Blue Danube in swing. Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln with face lifted, wrinkles erased and character lines obliterated. The legs of a fine old Chippendale piece knocked off and replaced with chrome pipe. The interior of Mount Vernon done over in 1938 night-club modern. The mellow patina of a fine old bronze reliquary burnished away...
Flying Buttress of Peace. The House of Chamberlain snipped and whacked away in London making shoes for 130 years. Their babes were suckled and their old folk died in bed above their shoemaking or "cordwaining" * shop. The Prime Minister today is an honorary member of the Cordwainers' Company...
...sinks into a coma. First it turns into a movie house (see cut) featuring Screeno night. Then it stoops to burlesque, complete with striptease. Then the police raid it, board it up, leave it grimy and forgotten. At the end the fabulous invalid is once more sitting up in bed: a band of young hopefuls, led by someone who might be Orson Welles, sweep out the dust and start rehearsing...
Sisters, Brothers, Sons In Idaho Falls, Idaho, Mrs. Melvin Hintze and Mrs. Shirley Hintze, sisters who six years ago married brothers in a double wedding, were brought to bed of sons within 25 minutes of each other...