Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people get up too late and go to bed too late," declared Historian Douglas Southall Freeman, who usually rolls out at 2:30 A.M. and hits the hay at 9 P.M. "The nation would be greater and its people more alert mentally and physically if they got out of bed by sunup every day . . . The difference between a career and a job is the difference between forty hours a week and sixty hours a week...
...Madame Alda (now 66) recalls it, Caruso said, "Non fa niènte. You just stand still and move your lips and I'll sing it for you." With his back to the audience, he did just that. Says Alda: "I felt like sitting up in my bed and joining in the applause...
...Song of Bernadette," as an example of someone who had investigated the Church and had publicly admitted that its doctrines were the primary influence of his life, and who had never been baptized a Catholic. Maluf said Werfel must be in hell unless he was baptized on his death bed...
Among the exhibits, however, there were still a few pieces to startle conservatives. Charles Eames's canvas-and-plastic chair with ventilated seat looked for all the world like an atomic-age version of a toilet seat. Florence Knoll's immense, pancake-thin air-foam bed, perched on spindly legs, had an insubstantial look that suggested uneasy napping. And too often, for all their inexpensive materials and simplified design, even the most agreable modern furnishings were higher-priced than the overdecorated, overstuffed period pieces most Americans are used...
...calendar and pasted the numbers on bits of cardboard, he could teach beginners to read and count while pretending to be playing a game. He taught them "how to measure a field and figure the number of acres, how to figure the number of bushels in a wagon bed [or a] corn bin." Soon farmers from all over the valley, and from Chicken Creek and Unknown, too, began asking his pupils to measure their fields and count their bushels for them...