Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Haven, Mich, last week worry over an adverse NLRB decision was said to have driven General Manager Arthur L. Colten of Kiddie Kover Manufacturing Co. to undue extremes. Last fortnight, Colten was found dying in his bed with a copy of the decision in his hand and a self-inflicted bullet wound in his head...
Last December a plump, middle-aged Mexican song writer, Maria Grever, lay bedridden with a serious face infection. Hypodermic injections by an attending physician made her feel as if her bed were tipping. Forced to meditate on this seasick idea, Tunesmith Grever evolved the title Ti-Pi-Tin, composed a tune to go with...
...British rule. If the traveler, raincoated against England's chilly mist, has his luggage marked "Australia," he will slip between the Alps in the afternoon, dine in Rome, sleep that night in dusty Athens. Next day he will cross the eastern Mediterranean, sweep over Mesopotamia, go to bed in Basra, Irak. Third and fourth nights are spent...
...sleeping in their cabs, drinking coffee or talking shop. If they listen to these men, they can hear stories of the true nomads of the American working class-of drivers who virtually live in their trucks, drive 30 hours without sleep, travel the roads for weeks without getting to bed. Last week a 29-year-old California truck driver summoned up some of this strange nocturnal life on wheels in a brief first novel...
...Untoward reactions, even death, may result from the administration of sulfanilamide. . . . The toxic effects are more commonly the results of its indiscriminate use, but may occur from an idiosyncrasy. . . . Fifteen per cent of patients cannot take large doses, and 10% are unable to tolerate it at all. Patients in bed tolerate larger doses than do those who are ambulatory. Patients exposed to sunlight are more apt than are others to develop a skin rash." The rash may resemble measles, scarlet fever or hives, and break out on the face, trunk or extremities. Slight poisoning by sulfanilamide causes headache, vomiting, dizziness...