Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even been found tucked away in the spa director's attic and streamed triumphantly in the breeze beside a palm tree hurriedly erected in the hotel park. King Saud, a bit testy from the rheumatic pains which had brought him to the spa, was shown his own bed and told that it had once been slept in by the Queen of Persia. "Too soft," he snapped. That night he rushed through a splendiferous eight-course dinner in just 30 minutes, and all his 60 guests had to leave the table when he did, finished...
Back in Moscow after several strenuous days doing Tashkent, globe-trotting Eleanor Roosevelt, 72, spent an afternoon in bed with an upset stomach, dauntlessly rose in the evening for dinner at the Indian embassy...
Bedridden invalids may soon become self-sufficient with the aid of a new machine that enables them to get in and out of bed without help. Developed by an aircraft design engineer named Leslie L. Miller, the Auto-Nurse is a complicated arrangement of harness, pulleys and cables powered by a tiny (1/12 h.p.) electric motor with high gear ratio and operated from a master control in the patient's hand. By pressing a button, the invalid can raise himself gently and silently off the bed, move to left or right, or lower himself into a bedside wheelchair...
...Giovanni Francesco Caroto, a minor Veronese painter, had hung in the library. Sir Edmund liked it so well he moved it to his bedroom, away from the rest of the fine collection of Gains-boroughs, Reynolds, Turners and 17th century Dutch painters. "I often paused on my way to bed to admire it," recalls Sir Edmund. "I always regarded it as a most beautiful picture...
...Prince Charles, 8, heir apparent to the British throne, will get caned in the "customary place" if he doesn't behave, be limited to 35? a week spending money and will sleep with six or seven boys his own age in an unheated dormitory on a wooden, springless bed covered with a thin mattress. Said Queen Elizabeth II to her son when she saw the bed: "You won't be able to bounce on that...