Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reed runs American Express. From the company's managers all over the world, cables and detailed monthly reports all flow directly to Reed in New York. He is constantly mulling ways to expand and improve the company's business. He seldom goes to bed before 2 a.m., frequently wakes up in the night to scrawl notes on the pad beside his bed...
...read the chapter, answer the questions, turn them in, then read the next chapter"), and if his pupils expressed curiosity about a topic, he was apt to get carried away. He assigned some strange themes (sample topic, taken from Green Pastures: "Even bein' God ain't no bed of roses"). He also read parts of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men "so that the kids could learn this lesson, that everybody in this world needs somebody else...
Under the Bed. Author Chevallier is obviously out for a fictional romp, and even people who deplore his easy tolerance can enjoy his plotless prattle. Marcel Aymé, as able a writer as any in France, is no more inclined to scold sinners, but his tightly plotted yarn is a more sardonic, more pointed comment on the human comedy. The Green Mare has some of the quality of a fable, as well as some of the inescapable judgment of life that every good fable offers. In the farm town of Claquebue most human feelings and actions are taken coolly...
...unpleasant fact is that during the Franco-Prussian War Honoré Haudouin was forced to lie quietly under his mother's bed while a Prussian sergeant had his way with her. Convinced that Zèphe Maloret sent the Prussians there, he has hated the family ever since. His well-to-do brother Ferdinand wants to drop the feud because Maloret is important politically. Ferdinand is the kind of man who, on hearing that his favorite son wants to enter the priesthood, says flatly: "You'll get no dessert until you have changed your mind." Hearing the shocking...
Maloret into a closet, knocks out his son and pushes him under the bed, and takes Madame Maloret. Gallic irony: the lady is delighted...