Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please his own constituents specially. But his main efforts were expended towards national legislation, such as raising the pay of postal clerks and letter carriers, and enlarging the Panama Canal. Last month he got up from a sick bed at President Coolidge's request, to fight for moderation of the "extortionate" Flood Control Bill...
...Hotel Savard, in snowy Murray Bay (La Malbaie, the French-Canadians call it) became jammed with men & women; two slept in a bed and cots filled up the dinky corridors, just as though a notorious murderer were to be tried. Sleighs were requisitioned, as recklessly as planes. More men, more money, were poured into the northland. ... In New York, hawkers sold flags and buttons, carpenters started building grandstands...
...with fascinated interest, the two-a-day theatrical folk, the bawdy country wenches, the flabby townspeople, the cheap sports who came to lodge at Aunt Jule's place. She was terrified when she saw the loveliest lady who had ever stayed at the inn, lying in a disheveled bed, beside the town drunkard. She helped Linda get the smooth slick townboy that her sister had always loved; and she observed with hurt wonder and dismay the way her own high-school boy friends turned away from her as they grew old enough to appreciate the fact that her guardian...
...interesting as a secret; it is too bad that Author Powell speaks on page 6 of Aunt Jule's "black hair piled in sleek coils" and on page 191 of Aunt Jule remembering "her hair, golden like Linda's . . ." but only people who read books in bed instead of on the subway will notice such trivial but important discrepancies...
...dispatch received at two this morning sent the boys off to bed an hour later in happy mood. The message was a facsimile of that sent to Head Coach Phelps of the Yale team yesterday afternoon by President M. A. Stevens of Yale, and follows...