Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen sprawled on the lawn, trampled down rose bushes or broke branches from trees to get unobstructed views for their cameras, a crowd lined the street. From Marilyn's lawyer, Jerry Giesler, newsmen picked up bits, reported that Marilyn was upstairs sick in bed "with a virus" while Joe "brewed a pot of soup for his ailing wife." When a reporter asked why Joe didn't move out of the house, Giesler replied that he "wouldn't be surprised if Joe stayed until the lease...
...report a nudist convention, wrote that Marilyn had once given her the recipe for "happiness." It was to "serve Joe dinner in his chair while he watched TV," and let him wear the-pants in the family. Marilyn, according to Aline, also bought a "king-size, eight-foot bed," because she did not approve of separate bedrooms, and "often in bed you think of something you want to say, and you're not going to chase down the hall to another room...
...work in progress was a $700,000, 65-bed wing for St. Anne's Maternity Hospital, a home for unwed mothers. The nun was Sister Winifred, 59, head of St. Anne's ever since she took charge in 1941. St. Anne's was an inauspicious waif itself in those days, consisting of one building, one 40-year-old cottage and exactly $39.39 in cash. Recalls Sister Winifred: "We couldn't even pay for the groceries." Now, the hospital operates on an annual budget of $107,000, maintains 42 beds, and has a volunteer staff...
...than one football coach at Harvard. They always wondered how he produced the technical skill, and, more important, the clean which distinguished the Harvard toot ensemble. . . It takes something extraordinary. . . It takes something extraordinary to inspire college undergraduates these days. It takes something special to get off a death bed and bring down the house as an after-dinner speaker (at a band banquet) with a talk on the Decline and Fall of the Glockenspiel...
...when one rouses me, I lie quietly there in bed and say a little prayer. First, to thank God that some alert American youngster is up there in that jet watching over me. Second, I ask that the plane and the boy get safely back. After that, with no trouble at all, I turn over and go right back to sleep...