Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Evening Post sent one Kenneth Campbell, reporter, to interview the Stratons last week. He was meticulously observant and took obvious pleasure in relating how he found Pastor Straton in bed late in the afternoon, "clad in an old-fashioned night shirt. . . . From a gas jet at the head of the bed hung Dr. Straton's black waistcoat, from which dangled the medal he won in a college oratorical contest many years...
...medal swung back and forth to the rhythm of the fundamentalist leader's vehemence. His usually sonorous voice sounded less impressive from his bed than it sounds from Calvary pulpit...
Pastor Straton's bed was covered with newspapers, disarrayed. Warren Badenock Straton sat at the foot of the bed reading the newspapers...
...only three stops for a total loss of 16 minutes, and finished strong, although he lost ten pounds. He averaged a mile every eight and one-half minutes. After he finished the run he took a large dish of ice-cream and a glass of lemonade and went to bed for a 24-hour sleep. The New York Times said that "Hatch's performance probably was the most remarkable in history...
Rome she finds "a dirty little anthill of Italian filth." Caesar, her lover, "talks like a very king of kings, but acts like a delicatessen-storekeeper." He has a fit of epilepsy: "Fancy sharing your bed with a man who is in the habit of turning into a corpse." She meets Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Calpurnia thanks her "for providing me with such an excellent excuse to exercise freely whatever poor talents I possess." The nature of these talents is reflected in Cleopatra's diary: "Received this morning a jar of preserved roses from Calpurnia...