Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Emily Fletcher went into her father's room on the morning after he died. "The blanket had been thrown off and hung beside the bed; the sheets seemed clasped between his legs and wound about his body. There was something hideous in his immobility, which was not the repose of sleep." Soon after that morning Emily's grandmother, Mrs. Elliot, came to live at Ashley House, and through its wide dismantled rooms there passed whining draughts of greed & hatred...
...Emily into her room and the two of them would discuss Mrs. Fletcher. Emily was too weak to oppose her mother's economies that took, among other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second-hand sales. Mrs. Elliot would push herself up in bed and stare at the pale, frightened child. "She clutched her granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing that she never had a grain of good...
...Bed was a phrase often penned by Samuel Pepys, who will live in the genial preservative of a diary he kept in the 17th Century as long as there is English literature. Mr. Pepys was not, in the Victorian interpretation, a strictly moral man, and it is from his amatory propensities that much of this graceful comedy is spun. He visits a lady's lodging with the worst motives in the world; is interrupted by the arrival of His Gracious Majesty Charles II who has practically the same motives; is further embarrassed by the entrance of irate Mrs. Pepys...
...Webb's style, like the Globe style in general, depends upon facts. He is not unconscious of the drama of football, but he is not given to printing intimate little scenes from the lives of great college athletes. He seldom wakes a coach up in bed, and if he does he does not describe the tone of his voice. When facts are not available, Mr. Webb's hunches are based on the facts of the past, plus such facts as he learns through his contacts...
...after all, these are transitory. You ask our advice--here it is: go to bed, It's the only place in Boston tonight where there is no cover charge. The Crime...