Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Herriot, confined to his bed by illness, read these headlines, waxed impatient and finally angry. He decided to receive the ever-waiting army of journalists in his bedroom. To them he said...
Then, sitting up in his bed, he read to them a statement in which he categorically proved that the opposition newspapers had either exaggerated the importance of Communist activities or had fabricated reports to cause panic among the people. He drew a long and dismal picture of the disastrous effects which such scare news was causing: withdrawal of money from banks, runs on provision stores, expatriation of capital...
There will never be a case tried, whether you win or lose, after which you won't lie in bed and toss while you think of the things you could have done, the things you left unsaid...
Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers are satisfied by the noises which may be transmitted to them over the ether. But even in their case, and though they delight in listening in on Presidential speeches, football games, ball games, jazzy funnymen, first aid lectures, bed-time stories and advice to mothers, their interest is thus aroused in their newspapers. They delight in reading what they have heard. Many of Mr. Rose's friends told him that radio has made them read the newspaper accounts more eagerly. More critically...
...mother. That was the way of it; no explanation. Upstairs there were scenes; downstairs there were bubblings; in my lady's chamber there was bitterness of heart, all because a spoiled and lonely child was untowardly fond of a buman being who made the bread. Little Eva went to bed with a temperature. Elsie, ashamed somehow, offered to give notice. Then said Mrs. Raste, that admirable woman, knowing herself beaten, conceding that love is power: "Then you want to make it still more difficult for me. Do you want to kill...