Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creep out of bed and Madame La Grippe holds fortified positions in my head and vitals, whirls in a derisive dervish-dance in my ears. Slowly to breakfast and slowly to class, shivering. Fever mounts to my face after I am seated and for minutes I struggle with an oppressive longing to leave and go back to my garret to bed...
Find greater ease in my big green chair, my feet on the bed. I browse in the plays, hunting for the songs therein. They are my delight...
...legislators at the expense of the taxpayers. Much to the surprise of the investigating committee's chairman, New York State Senator McNaboe, Cornell has a chapter of the American Student Union and the Young Communist League. This was considered sufficient evidence for accusing the University of being a hot-bed of reds. Since Harvard has these two organizations, it is presumably the New England headquarters for subversive activities. Even though the Harvard Student Union had only 100 members at the time it was organized, it caused Mr. Hearst, and other professional patriots, a headache...
...bubonic plague. There the innocent soldier of mis fortune hit a real romantic adventure. Late at night he picked up a mysterious Chilean girl, a little plump and strangely absentminded, but pretty. He took her to his hotel. He ran out to get something to drink, found her in bed, moaning piteously when he returned. The plague! he thought. But when he asked, "What's the matter?" her reply was: "I'm having a baby...
While in Minnesota Swedes hold a gala country dance, big blond square-headed people singing and shouting and stamping and reeling. While in Vermont Ephraim Putney puts down "The Contry Gentleman" and rubs his eyes as he clumps in his loose old Congress gaiters up to bed. While in Florida a huge corps of painters, cleaning-women and janitors go over the Miami-Biltmore, working late to get ready for the coming rush. While overseas the bright young Mr. Eden scratches his head over the second major diplomatic crisis he has had to handle in a year. While Mussolini frowns...