Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train bound southward roared through the gathering dark over the state of Virginia. Aboard the train, Charles E. Hughes made his toilet preparatory to going to bed...
...Reporters are on the train and want to interview you," he said. Mr. Hughes, opening his eyes, did not look upon the request with favor. "Tell them," he replied, "that I am very tired and have gone to bed." "All right," said the conductor...
Then I went for Pepeliayev. He, too, was dressed and sitting on his iron bed. He broke into convulsive sobs while listening to the death sentence. Having recovered his composure, he expressed surprise, declaring he had made peace with the Soviet regime and addressed a petition to the Central Executive Committee, asking for a reprieve. He begged us not to shoot him until the executive's reply came. I informed him this was impossible, and took him to join Kolchak...
Last week, Stefan Raditch, leader of the Croatian autonomists (i.e., those advocating total separation from the Serb Kingdom and self-rule as an independent republic) was found under a bed in a house in Zagreb, the address of which had been supplied by a Radical turned traitor. Police dragged Raditch, who is under a ban for being in league with the Bolsheviki, from under the bed by the heels, cast him into prison...
...pitcher as able Walter Johnson of the Washington Americans (TIME, Sept. 22 et seq.). "The president of one of the largest public utility corporations in the country"* thanked Mr. Bagley for having reduced his weight ten pounds. "One of those bobbed-haired stenographers" said she used to lie in bed of a morning laughing at the sound of her family doing their daily "physical torture." "One morning, though, I got up to watch them, and ever since I've been helping them loosen the plaster on the ceilings...