Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...donors. He is the son of a late Confederate officer. He began with nothing and managed to set himself up as the proprietor of both morning and evening newspapers in his home city, Lynchburg, Va. He was elected to the State Senate while lying on a sick-bed in Manhattan. Four years later he went to Congress from which he resigned (1919) to take an appointment as Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson cabinet. When he left that post he was appointed Senator from Virginia...
Rosa Sücher, aged 75, famed opera singer, was discovered "living crippled, bed-ridden and penniless at a small inn near Aachen." Once she was a student under the great Wagner, once she thrilled thousands of German opera-goers-so much so that they were accused of making a goddess of her. Once Frau Rosa Luxemburg ruled the red roost at Communist headquarters in Berlin. She was killed in 1919. Frau Klara Zetkin succeeded her, but Klara became old, abdicated her power, went to Russia, her "spiritual home." The new leader is Frau Ruth Fischer, Vienna Jewess, onetime confidante...
...unostentatious ways of doing things, both can spare words, both have a certain primitive honesty. Butler, now gray, portly, 63, wearer of double glasses, comes of an old New Bedford family. At 16 he was at work in a New Bedford shoe factory. Later he went away from New Bed- ford to go into law and politics. Now he runs, on the side, a few cotton mills in New Bedford...
When Homer St. Gaudens was seven, his father visited Robert Louis Stevenson, taking the child with him. The purpose of the visit was to make a bronze medal of the writer, who was then sick-a-bed, making his plans for a visit to the South Sea Islands. There was great difficulty in getting a pose which was not artificial and forced. The sculptor at last suggested that Stevenson write something. He picked up a sheet of paper and began, at once falling into the natural pose immortalized in the famed St. Gaudens Medal. At the end of the pose...
...turned from this trade-route at its western end and followed the Black River north until it became so low that we had to dig in its bed to get water. After several days of most arduous travelling, we reached Edsina, the famous town where Marco Polo prepared for his forty-day hike to the palace of the Great Khan at Kara Korum. One of the strange encroachments of the desert has left the town deserted now, but its huge walls stand up 35 feet in the air, making a picturesque sight with their weathered, unbaked bricks. The remains...