Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dominions were to be distributed according to plan, and that this was not a question of weeks, but of immediate days. It required some resolution on my part to assure my caller that this war would not start before the next morning and he might, therefore, retire to bed...
...creator of Babar, the elephant whose life and high times he illustrated in a series of picture books read by children the world over. Babar, his Queen Celeste, his kindly adviser Cornelius, his mischievous little cousin Arthur and his friend the Old Lady, were all invented during bed-time stories told by Artist de Brunhoff to his three little boys. Between 1932 and 1937, five Babar books were published in France, translated into English. A few months before he died at 37, M. de Brunhoff designed costumes and sets for Babar's debut on the Paris stage...
...posters be taken down he stormed at these representatives of the Japanese people as though they were schoolboys meddling on a warship's bridge. However, after 73-year-old Mr. Isoo Abe, leader of the Social Mass Party, had had his jaw broken by ruffians and retired to bed, Admiral Suetsugu permitted the police to give deputies opposed to the bill some protection, and the more inflammatory posters were pasted over with milder ones. To prove that His Imperial Majesty's Government was not asking anything unreasonable of the Diet, Government newsorgans came out prematurely (a month before...
...room together at the Stevens. The friend arrived and claimed the room. When Mr. Downs asked for his key "pandemonium broke out." Many excuses were offered, but the stock excuse, "all rooms occupied," could not be made. Finally another was found. Maids and hall boys hastily removed the twin beds from the room and replaced them with a double bed, and Mr. Downs was told "two persons cannot sleep in the same bed unless they are married...
...President: Well, Steve, if you insist. That's an awful thing to put up to a fellow at this hour of the morning just out of bed. Suppose we make this background and take some time because it is an awfully big subject to cover, and it is just possible that one or two of you may not have read the whole 28 or 29 pages of the Supreme Court decision...