Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pair of greedy boys from the French family next door got the Wimbledon bowl away from John's American cousins just before everyone went home. This might not have happened, some thought, if little "Vinnie" Richards, one of the Americans, had gone to bed earlier the week of the party, had not guzzled so much of the punch...
...Story. Peter Pock, Jr., was born in a bed of roses with a silver spoon in his mouth...
...World.* Laurence Stallings, his assistant, told apropos of the appearance of the volume some of the facts of Cobb's last days : "The last memory I shall have of Frank Cobb was on the day following Harding's death. He was propped up on his bed, for he was in steady, enduring pain. For a lifetime he had surveyed the forces at play about him with a vigor almost unprecedented in journalism, a profession wherein only the vigorous survive. I had gone to his house that he might dictate to me a few notes to his colleagues...
...races are on. Tomorrow the Waiters of the two camps will meet over the half-mile course. The Crimson waiters are training hard, and will be in bed by midnight tonight in preparation for their struggle in the morning. Thursday will see the Gentleman's Eight racing the Yale graduates, and the race between the Combination Eights. These races will be rowed one after the other shortly after 5 o'clock. Then on Friday at 10 o'clock the 1927 crews will settle their dispute over the middle two miles of the course, rowing upstream, and the Second crews will...
...same time, there are those annoying objections that insist on occurring to even the best disciplined minds. While it would be entirely delightful to be tall enough to see over the fences of football fields and baseball parks, going home to bed after the game would present difficulties of striking proportions. And if Mr. Ringling's giant, feeling about in the dark for the tooth powder, selected the wrong jar, the result would be colossal...