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Word: bedfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bed sans sheet, a board sans meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senate Week | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Marriage Bed is Ernest Pascal's dramatization of his novel, which attracted by it? By its clinical title, and was swept into the ephemeral list of bestsellers. The play opened last week in Manhattan after a happy spell (with a Hollywood cast) on the Pacific coast (TIME, Oct. 29). Mary Boyd (Ann Davis) the "thirtyish" but personable wife of George Boyd (Allan Dinehart) is apprised, by her meddling mother (Elizabeth Patterson), of Boyd's unfaithfulness. To Rochester he has gone on a business trip, accompanied by Christine Kennedy (Helen Flint); openly he has carried on the affair with Christine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...recalcitrant lover, a timidly lecherous golfer whose eyebrows kept going back on him whenever he saw a pretty girl, was Jack Haley, an infallible absurdity. When he broached the matter of his grandmother's bed, someone suggested that it was probably one of those beds George Washington had slept in. "We could never get Grandma to admit it." said the unilateral Haley. More samples of locker room esprit were forthcoming; John Sheehun, a sturdier comedian, described taking a bath as "dunking the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Died. Wallace Eddinger, 47, famed actor (Little Lord Fauntleroy, Captain Applejack, And So To Bed); of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...provoking as his father's, but his imagination was wilder. Somebody told him that the Herald was getting to be a Roman Catholic sheet; immediately a roaring editorial headed "To Hell with the Pope" was written. A wise secretary kept it off the press after Bennett had gone to bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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