Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simultaneously comes the news that Bryn Mawr girls have succumbed to the temptations of a luxurious Sunday morning breakfast in bed while their Wellesley contemporaries, in order to enjoy a puff of a cigarette prohibited in Wellesley and Natick, are making a daily trip to Boston and back between morning and noon classes, luxuriating in clouds of tobacco smoke and monopolizing the Boston and Albany smokers at the expense of the male passengers...
...greatest interpreter of modern times,'and perhaps of any age, was Gustave Henri Camerlynck. Death found him, last week, in Paris, five days after he had taken to bed with influenza. As Chief Interpreter of the Paris Peace Conference, the Washington Conference, and the First Dawes Committee, Professor Camerlynck received the personal thanks of such statesmen as David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson. He was to have interpreted for the new Second Dawes Committee (see col. 2). As illness stole upon him last fortnight, Professor Camerlynck interpreted, for the last time, between Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France...
Commonly recommended as remedies for seasickness are champagne, chewing lemons, going to bed for the first two days, pills, thinking of other things...
...once said: "I got on famously with Prince Edward until I put that piece of ice down his neck. ... I liked Oscar Wilde a great deal, but he got a bit tiresome, coming around so often. . . . Once, after I had gone to bed, I heard a great deal of clatter downstairs, and my husband came up. 'My dear,' he said, 'if you must have those wretched poets sleeping around the place, can't you have them sleep in the garden? This is the third time I have stumbled over one of them.' " She once quoted...
Introspection is the mother of image-sorting. So long as one is in a state of interior solitude, one can introspect almost anywhere-walking along a crowded street, in a sunny meadow, in a room where typewriters are banging, in a room alone with a fire, in bed in the morning or just before falling asleep at night...