Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck went off with a blast bigger than a World War II blockbuster, dug a 50-ft.-wide crater 20 ft. deep, pulverized six blocks of business buildings, transients' apartments and homes, smashed the windows and badly damaged a 23-block area, knocked people out of bed for eight miles around...
Settings for any production of Peter Pan are an especial challenge since the script calls for seven different scene changes. However, William D. Roberts has provided some sparkling and highly imaginative ones for Group 20, complete with toadstool benches and a foldaway bed. Perhaps such a complicated show technically is a bit ambitious for a stage without a curtain. All set changes must be made by hand, and are, therefore, unduly long...
...fumes got so bad that mine officials kept watch round the clock to waken residents in case of a sudden increase of escaping gas. They knew that the Lackawanna River, toward which the fire was eating its way, would be no barrier. The fire could pass under its bed, and eat its way under the city's business section on the far side...
Mademoiselle crammed her voluminous journals with vivid vignettes. One episode she understandably failed to record concerned Count de Lauzun who hid under the bed of Mme. de Montespan, mistress to Louis XIV, and later mimicked her conversation back to her word for word. Mademoiselle did describe the bloodiest battle of the Fronde, when she saw the Duke de la Rochefoucauld staggering toward her, "having received a musket-ball through his eyes and nose, so that his eyes seemed to be falling out, and he kept blowing the blood away as though he feared one of his eyes might fall into...
Like La Rochefoucauld, Mademoiselle was destined to die in bed. But even death did not spare her a final characteristic misadventure. Her body lay in state for several days. Gossipist Saint-Simon describes the "most ridiculous thing" that then happened: "In mid-ceremony, the urn containing the entrails exploded with a frightful noise and a sudden insufferable stink. Instantly, there were the ladies, some of them swooning with horror, others taking flight ... the monks ... in the act of singing psalms, all made for the doors ... the chaos was extreme...