Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Take Up Thy Bed...
...Barnes) in New York, the three sisters, unbeknown to their broken-hearted, divorced mother, take ship for America to make a counter-attack against the "enemy." They gain their first point when "Penny" interrupts every attempt of their papa's "Precious" to talk at luncheon; later "Penny" drags her bed across the floor while the adventuress is singing (?) below, thus winning a second objective. "Precious" and her simpering mother (Alice Brady) try to persuade the easy-going father to ship his daughters back the next day, but so well do they succeed in obtaining his affection, that they stay...
...whoever should! Alighting, the bride & bridegroom went indoors to be united in civil marriage by the Burgomaster of The Hague, and to sign the register. No Dutch burgomaster ever omits to lecture a Dutch couple on this occasion severely and at great length, pointing out that marriage is no bed of roses, duty comes before pleasure, wealth is the visible reward of industrious virtue, and honesty the inescapable policy. This Dutch-uncle lecture, and the smart blow of the Burgomaster's gavel with which he knocked the pair down to each other, Juliana & Bernhard bore with placid disregard...
...caves and in the ivy near my window. The sparrows start their lively twittering with the first rays of the (to me) invisible sun. It is usually more unpleasant than pleasant to wake up early and listen to them. I get to thinking I shouldn't have gone to bed so late--if I hadn't I could get up now, and to my duties haste. Or how I wasted all day before--except for the half hour of squash--that was certainly to the good. Or other things...
...Hand" as requested by "Frisky" was nipped in the bud by someone in the know in the station. It being after 4 o'clock at this point and the Scotch having gone the way of all good scotch, the playful fellows decided that it was time to go to bed anyway...