Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge having practically recovered from his recent cold (TIME, March 1), Mrs. Coolidge caught it. She was not seriously ill, but on physicians' advice stayed in bed for a day in order to make quick recovery. It so happened that that was the day that Attorney General and Mrs. Sargent were giving a dinner for the President and his lady. Since Mrs. Coolidge could not go, Mrs. William M. Jardine, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, was invited to accompany the President. In recent years no President has ever escorted a lady other than his wife. Proper procedure...
...President destroyed his cold by remaining in bed for an entire...
...Every Fall when Jack Frost got in his dirty work on the vegetables, we got in ours on Oscar. Overripe tomatoes made such an excellent missive that Oscar's mother soon complained to the proper authorities, and the game was off. We spent the rest of the day in bed...
...Peterson's daughter, Mrs. Pauline Peterson Wenzing, was probated. This Mrs. Wenzing was a girl of 13 on the night when her mother turned from the lamp and her father got up from his stitching to answer a wild knock ing at the door. It was in her own bed (on the ground floor) that the men who came tramping into the house laid their long, gaunt, helpless burden...
...were president of this university, I would. . ." How many disgruntled professors have muttered thus in the privacy of their bed-chambers after a discouraging...