Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annals: Stevenson's "Cummic" has been immortalized; Lytton Strachey credits an odd individual, Mrs. Salome Leaker, with a vigorous part in his up-bringing; Barrle was intimately aware of the merits of nurse-maids--but even his affectionate "Nana" could hardly find place beside the loyal Southern mammies. Their bed-time stories compare as literature to the legendary fantasy of Ireland, and their lullabies are America's only folk music...
...however, gone too far in the direction of realism. It belies itself. The "Mayflower", of all impeccable ships, is now accused of carrying cows, and actually,--pigs. The horror of the imputation would be unspeakable,--but fortunately we know better. With the authentic load of hymn-books, blunderbusses, bed-warmers and spinning-wheels, could there have been also room for swine? The question is rhetorical; there could not. But the trend of things is obvious. How soon will someone discover that Douglas wrote the Gettysburg Address...
Last month the CRIMSON proposed a sort of open sesame into Widener where by books could be returned when the building itself was closed. Many borrowers, after studying late in the evening, would prefer a midnight pilgrimage to Widener before going to bed, rather than wake in time to return their books by nine in the morning. Still more, leaving Cambridge on Sunday for the day, they would be relieved of the awkward responsibility of returning their books between one and two, precisely the dinner-hour...
...lender, but its prodigality, coupled with the damage wrought by the come-and-go governments, finally resulted in its failure. Now, however, under a system modelled after the Federal Reserve and put into operation by Americans, the rejuvenated Cuban bank should be so firmly set on a financial rock-bed that none of the Island's frequent political lapses should be able to budge it therefrom...
...full description of a happy State in this World"; and then he goes on, advancing more advios: "Whatever he eats that is solid, make him chew it well. We English are often from whence follow Indigestion and other great inconveniences. . . His Drink should be only Small Beer. . . . Let his Bed be hard, rather than Quilts and Feathers". The last suggestion that he makes is the only one with which the author of "How not to Catch Cold", a recent article in the Literary Digest, agrees-to the effect that "he should be much in the open Air, and as little...