Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funds. He, Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming, 82, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had made this plea more than 20 times during the 40½-hour Reed v. Reed wrangle. He had spent half of one night on a Senate lounge when he should have been home in bed. His snow-white moustache drooped; his eyes were sunken, bleary; his voice quavered. Somebody said: "I object." His last plea was dashed to the floor like a broken relic. Like an angered god, he lifted his voice above the Senate din, pronounced a commandment: "Every Senator can't have...
...tell, Washington has become the universal Mecca of human freaks. To that city protagonists of vagaries gravitate by all known routes, some by election, some by appointment, some by 'divine command.' The great majority, however, merely follow noses that itch for the business of others. There they bed and breed...
...hurry to work. An hour later, he made the following report to the Senate: "Mr. Bayard could not come because he is getting ready to go out of town to attend a funeral tomorrow. . . . Mr. Caraway's telephone, it is said, has been disconnected. . . . Mr. Keyes is in bed, but says he will think it over. I think he was serious about that. . . . At Mr. McLean's residence we reached some one on the telephone who refused to give him the message. . . . Mr. Gooding is in bed, but says: 'All right, I will come over...
...least there seems to be some value in a demonstration in which they exhibited: a three-quarter bed which constricts itself into a slender couch, two chiffoniers which measure eight inches and twenty inches in width, a reading table for the bed with top the size of a dinner plate, chairs no more rugged than most people's bridge tables, vases and lamps which economize themselves as they go skyward as rapidly as Gothic spires...
...mute, the other a paralytic. Later in life, a thunderstorm suddenly starts up during the third act to provide atmosphere while the mute is engaged in raping a girl. This reprehensible sight so enrages the paralytic (20 years bedridden) that he suddenly renews his synaptic connections, skips out of bed, does successful battle for the Right. The play's existence testifies to at least one of the evils of Prohibition...