Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tower on which sits "Big Ben" and would have seen the light which shines above go out?the sign that a session had just ended. Not many minutes earlier, a weary man had risen from the Treasury Bench to make his way?some few hundred yards to his downy bed. . . . Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been battling for his maiden budget...
...still does believe in the regime of the Soviets, but avers that they are being run by a mere 18,000 people who are fast becoming an aristocracy. He shows himself to be a partisan of Trotzky, says that Lenin designated Trotzky as his successor on his death bed and, in the same place, cursed Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev, the present rulers of Russia...
...Catt revealed a secret 35 years old. When first elected President of the Association, in 1890, she flung herself on a bed and cried for three hours...
...Babe Ruth, home run magnate, "attended by the sympathy of the Nation" and press, lay in Manhattan, stricken with cold, run-down condition, influenza, indigestion and a bump on the head. In Nashville, Tenn., visited with far less solicitude, Tyrus Cobb, "the greatest player m baseball," took to his bed with influenza. A few days ago, shortly before the season opened, 12 other able players were retired from their lineups with injuries received in play or colds: Wright-stone, Philadelphia Phillies, broken finger; Maranville, Chicago Cubs, broken leg; Grigsby, Chicago Cubs, broken collar bone; Archdeacon, Chicago White Sox, tonsilitis; Eddie...
...thus to bed we soaring went...