Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immediately Senator Watson from his hospital bed in Indianapolis denounced this story as the "fabrication of a disappointed office-seeker." Two days later in his last radio speech before election day, he talked about the tariff and had soft words for everyone...
Later, in a hospital bed lay Michael Bremant, member of University of Pennsylvania wrestling team, with deep cuts in his legs, hands, back, face. In an adjoining room was his roommate, Francis E. Denniston, with his hands cut up. In jail was Anna Johnson, knife-wielding Negress. In the House of Detention were three black girls...
...peak of his success, Sam has double pneumonia. His weak heart fails slowly. As he lies grimly cheerful in bed, completely absorbed in the fate of his body, it is less and less upon his public fame, more and more upon his dead wife and Delphine that his side-thoughts turn. Delphine commits suicide, victim of melancholy. Her young sister, Gwen, arrives to lament, to accuse. She stays to love Sam's son, Geoffrey. Sam passes his crisis but relapses. Deserted by Delphine, he utters his wife's name as his jaw drops...
Pride's Bed...
Dying of cancer in her sixties in a Pacific coast boom town, with loutish roomers clumping overhead and with no love left for her patient, tender, ineffectual husband, Myra was bitter over her self-defeat, until the end. Passion had made her a lowly bed; she had writhed on it for years. She still could laugh at some of life's absurdities. Some of its beauty was still warm to her-Heine's poems, her own lovely hands. But her steely pride was turned upon itself, 'her mortal enemy. Not even religion could resign...