Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis* was born in a mill-town called Tredegar, 53 years ago-the son and grandson of stout iron workers. One day, when he was eight, his mother dragged him out from under his bed by the heels. He tried to grip the floor and got splinters in his hands, but he was taken off to the land of liberty by his family, who believed: "The American mind is right. Go to America...
...first act is in the home of the wealthy Count de Varigny, played by Bruce McRae. A valuable half hour is consumed in explaining that the Count has a son who has left his father's bed and board three years previous to the curtain to write popular songs in Parisian Tin-Pan Alley. Here, the son, Mr. Geoffrey Kerr, has been fortunate enough to awaken with his piano one night the charming Miss Bainter, playing the part of a Roumanian medical student. Thus acquaintance, attention, and infatuation in quick succession. A bailiff with a long name has come...
...life imprisonment in a hot cell in Egypt. After 22 years Parliament remembered that this fighting man was still alive. Judged him harmless, let him out. He spent the quiet evening of his days playing with a gourd rattle in the door of a hut. He died in bed...
When M. Pashitch returned from his conference with King Alexander he went straight to bed. Later he tossed and moaned, became unconscious. His physicians, hurriedly summoned, found that an artery in the brain of M. Pashitch had burst. There was no hope. The right half of the brain was already paralyzed. To relieve the blood pressure and permit M. Pashitch to recover consciousness for a few minutes external bleeding was induced by an incision. For an instant he rallied, recognized his daughter and whispered something as she bent over him. Then Death came in a red mist. Jugoslavia had lost...
...laid his fifty-second weekly wreath on Cordelia's grave, of other women?of "Amanda the faithful, "so noble that she creaks," who had repented for her pride and never married; of nymphs and dryads on spring breezes and in dreams; even of a mulatto making a bed. Nor was it surprising that he progressed from elderly solicitude to queasy warmth for Annabel Upchurch, Cordelia's impecunious niece, aged 23. Annabel had no moral sense but a heart. The heart had been cracked by her first lover. She had winged eyebrows, cherubic curves and, like the Blonde that Gentlemen Preferred...