Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question of Age. At 52, Cooper is in the pink of condition. He stands 6 ft. 11n., weighs a strapping 185 Ibs. Two years ago Cooper was ordered to bed by his doctor with what seemed to be an alarming heart condition. It later turned out that the doctor's electrocardiograph and not Cooper's heart was faulty, but the untrue rumor that Cooper had heart trouble has persisted. He smokes a rare cigarette, drinks an occasional bourbon highball, and dresses soberly. He has a horror of loud ties, and when he is tempted to substitute one with...
Mendès and his pretty wife, Lily, drove off to the Elysee Palace for the formal visit to President Coty, and finally, not long before dawn, the new Premier went to bed. But in less than four hours, he was up and beating the political bushes for men who would join him in his 33-day marathon. By week's end Premier Mendès had a Cabinet notable for its youth (average age: 47, the same as the Premier...
Long past midnight, he returned to his own hotel room, with its single bed and footlocker, its view of an outside wall not five feet away...
...except for a brief surrealistic lark when Betsy runs off to New York with her captive sisters, the novel dredges a long, dry stream-bed of consciousness...
...even took one young prostitute to live with him and "encouraged her to weep over her vile life." He "read books to her every night," while she "lay nude . . . listening like one bewitched." Disillusionment came when the young shepherd returned home unexpectedly and found his lamb folded into bed with "a man with a large mustache." Beside the bed sat a second gent, waiting his turn. Poor Hecht fled "this hellish sight"-but not without recalling appropriate words of Swinburne: 0 lips full of lust and of laughter, Curled snakes that are fed from my breast...