Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legged Frank Scully, who wrote Fun in Bed after 20 operations and many years in hospitals, ran for California's State Assembly in 1938 on the slogan, "Out of the Gully with Candidate Scully." Though defeated, he got as reward for supporting Governor Culbert Olson the job of administrative assistant and secretary in the Department of Institutions. His boss was Director Aaron Rosanoff, well-known psychiatrist...
...coffee pot had boiled over on the new stove, extinguished the flame. Little Bruno lay on the floor, Amelia on the bed. The emergency crew worked on the two for a fruitless hour before they finally gave up. Angelo's three years had become a life sentence...
...without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled skull...
...four years little Maxine lay quietly in bed, while her mother cleaned, bathed, and turned her, fed her through a stomach tube. She grew slowly, like a plant in the dark; her rosy face turned white and blank. One day last week, six-year-old Maxine at last awoke. During her long sleep, she had lost her ability to talk, walk, or command her muscles in any way. She recognized no one, instinctively gulped her food like a newborn infant...
...Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...