Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private talks with Macmillan, Hagerty fell back on trivia, soon began sounding like a parody of himself. A sample Hagerty announcement: "I have one bit of hard news. Mr. Berding∣State Department press officer∣ was asked this morning if the President was sleeping in a four-poster bed, and the answer is yes, and also if he had ever slept before in a four-poster bed, and the answer is also...
...each morning, showered, shaved, had a small steak for breakfast, and was at his desk by 8 or 8:15. After lunch, he took an hour-long nap, then worked until 5:30, downed a Scotch highball before dinner, often returned to his work at night. Usually in bed by 10:30, he often relaxed-as he had during the days of World War II decisions-with western novels, preferably those of Red Reeder, Luke Short and Max Brand, to "shut off the mind and stop the thinking process...
...public the magician is both mute and masked; it is only when he climbs into bed with his wife that he strips off his satanic guise and lets the audience in on his secret: he is really a good man with a perfectly normal voice, forced by poverty into becoming a "ridiculous vagabond, living a lie." Inevitably, the charlatans' show ends in disaster, but the magician gets his revenge: he plays dead and, in a sequence eerie as a Kafka nightmare, torments a doctor who wants to dissect him. And at film's end, after numbing humiliations...
...sapling with his other hand and straighten "like a flag on a flagpole." Then, as he let go, the mountain crashed down around them in an avalanche of rocks, shattered trees and earth. Next day only Irene Bennett and Phillip were found alive in the stream bed, their clothes blown off, their bodies bleeding and bruised after one of the U.S.'s strongest earthquakes...
...them, John D. IV", 22, was discovered last week in Tokyo living in an $11.80-a-month room with a matted floor for a bed at Japan's International Christian University. Said he: "This is the life. It couldn't be better...