Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mamie's beaver coat was merely another of the thousands of gadgets, gimcracks and articles pressed on Presidents and their wives by well-meaning U.S. groups. (Ike once got a readymade flower bed.) The chief complaint, if beaver does come back, may come from U.S. husbands who have hocked themselves for mink...
...President of the Republic. He summoned a policeman. The aide finally convinced them his business was urgent. Athletic, 37-year-old Felix Gaillard (TIME, Sept. 23), Minister of Finance in the outgoing government of 43-year-old Caretaker Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, hopped out of bed. shaved, dressed and rushed to Coty. Shortly after 5 a.m. the blunt, fatherly President told Gaillard: form a government, and quickly...
...piled finally into a decrepit hack. We fell into O'Neill's room some time about five. I had just purchased that day a copy of SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. When the dawn broke, I was sitting on a trunk, Elkins sprawled across the bed, O'Neill reading in his powerful, melancholy bass, poem after poem from that disturbing collection." --John V.A. Weaver, a classmate...
...deleted from a Janet Planner 'London Letter' a forthright explanation of the nonliquid diet imposed upon the royal family and dignitaries during the coronation of George VI. 'So-and-so can't write a story without a man in it carrying a woman to bed,' he wailed. And again, 'I'll never print another [John] O'Hara story I don't understand. I want to know what his people are doing...
...different. But American trees are too uniform; Chinese trees are more interesting. What I missed most was the mist." For Huang this presented no insuperable problem. He simply left blank areas of rice paper to indicate the mist, in one view added two Chinese fishermen in the bed of Yosemite's Merced River, for good measure...