Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he filmed Ten Days That Shook the World in 1927, ten years after the October Revolution that the movie recreated, Sergei Eisenstein had all Leningrad at his disposal. He took over the dead Tsar's Winter Palace, gleefully had himself photographed on the throne, and used the imperial bed for a director's seat. Restaging the revolution with the nightly help of 3000 citizens, Eisenstein broke more palace windows in 1927 than had the real revolutionaries ten years before...
...said the borrower. "Fine, send me $20 tomorrow," Sam said, and padded back to bed...
...prided himself on his day-or-night availability. Once a phone call routed him from bed at3 a.m. "Sammy," said a client, "I'm in a poker game. All my money's in the pot, and I want to call this guy. Will you back me on this hand...
Sammy learned to gauge his customers. The late Joe McAuliffe, then covering politics for the Post-Dispatch and later managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, once invaded Sam's bedroom for an urgent loan. "My pants were on the foot of the old brass bed." Bronstein recalls. "I told Joe to help himself to whatever he needed. He was a great newspaperman, and I didn't have to ever worry about an honest count from...
...into some hazing trouble of its own. Wearing burlap bags, Delta Sigma Phi pledges had been ordered to drink mineral oil, play wheelbarrow, i.e., walk around on their hands while someone held their feet, push brushes across the floor with their noses. One boy was put to bed with a severely upset stomach. Another was hospitalized. Paul Earney, 24-year-old ex-paratrooper, spent a week in the hospital as a result of a neck injury received during the "brush race." Though the hazing was actually relatively mild, the university committee on student organizations suspended Delta Sigma Phi until...