Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth floor houses four squash courts, a tennis and squash supply shop, lockers, a television room, dressing rooms for commuters, and shower rooms. The other two squash courts are on the seventh floor along with the gymnasium, steam room, masseur, and 12-bed dormitory, used when the bedrooms are filled...
...work progressed, Wyeth suddenly realized that the sea shell set by chance at the foot of the bed was in fact symbolic of his subject. The nautilus builds additional "chambers" on its shell as it matures; so, he felt, Mrs. James "had built another room on the series of rooms that is her life." The painting gives substance to a Wyeth principle: "So many artists tell me they reached the bottom of realism too fast. They reached the depth of their own emotions, but not of the object. What the subject means is the important thing...
...within 24 hours after the onset of acute appendicitis and those admitted later. With the early admissions, for whom surgery offers the least risk, he follows tradition and operates promptly; the later admissions, for whom surgery would be more hazardous, he treats with drugs. He lets these rest in bed in any position they find comfortable, allows no food and only water to drink, gives them penicillin injections (250,000 units) every six hours, and in severe cases adds another antibiotic or one of the sulfas. To relieve pain, he gives meperidine or morphine...
Their testing came in December, 1951, when nine-year-old Gabrielle, "a long-legged, sun-kissed little girl, full of lively, irrepressible spirits," went to bed with a stomachache. Slowly, the symptoms multiplied: vomiting, difficulty in breathing, sharper attacks of pain followed by extreme lassitude. The doctor thought it was a virus infection. Another doctor diagnosed infectious hepatitis. Stomach X-rays suggested that a small tumor might be to blame. Nothing to worry about, said the doctors, but they advised an operation...
Before sleeping, all of the flowers in the room were "put to bed." and one blossom was selected to rest on Gabrielle's pillow. And there were prayers. Gabrielle had taught herself the Lord's Prayer from a book, and she repeated it each night as though actually thinking through the words. Like all children, says her mother, Gabrielle was "a natural believer with an enormous faith in God . . . I guess it's only as we grow older and become paved with pride and knowledge that we lose our understanding and begin to doubt and forget...