Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were fireworks that night in Honolulu. And while Commander Rodgers, relieved from duty, began a 16-hour sleep in a bed with sheets and a pillow, the newspapers of the world were thundering the news of his rescue, telling of his service record, of his famous naval forebears. They told about the John Rodgers of England who commanded the vessel that rescued Alexander Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe) from the Island of Juan Fernandez. They told of the buff-and-blue John Rodgers, lieutenant on the frigate, later Commander Rodgers. They pointed out that at no time since the last British...
...down to the minutest shirt stud has been kept by order of Alexandra exactly as Edward VII left it. Last week, Queen Mary, in the absence of George V who was hunting in Scotland, ordered and superintended a thorough cleaning preparatory to complete redecoration of this so-called "secret bed chamber." One good job done, Queen Mary passed to another locked bedroom door. Impassive but expectant the royal attendants waited. Would Her Majesty order that room disturbed? On the bureau had lain undisturbed for more than three decades a little pile of silver and copper coins. They had been left...
...late fiance's brother, who became George V. Did Her Majesty recall last week the notoriously blameless life of the late Duke of Clarence whose official biographer, J. Edmund Vincent, could find nothing worse to say of him than that at Cambridge he "went at shocking hours to bed...
...Evreux, France, Mme. de Landsheer, a Belgian lady touring with her husband, became violently ill at the hotel luncheon table. M. de Landsheer engaged a room at once, rushed his wife into bed, sped away for assistance. Upon his return with a doctor, he found his wife dead, her face mottled, eyes bulging. Examination revealed that Mme. de Landsheer's tongue had somehow completely reversed itself and been drawn into her larynx, strangling...
...white-trash parents. The father settles as a tenant-helper on tobacco farms and Ellen's maidenhood is more stable. Her lanky, hungry little frame rounds out and her nature, though always puzzled, sensitive and secretive, is opened by friends, security and small domestic possessions-a heifer, a bed. She suffers through an inconclusive courtship by a yokel with a good heart but no "spunk"; welcomes marriage with a muscular, free-spoken nomad of the hill-farms, Jasper Kent, whose children she bears and beside whom, as their narrow fortunes rise and fall, she lives on, always the self...