Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. W. T. Brinson, 64, "world's biggest Elk"; at Waycross, Ga., of apoplexy. Elk Brinson's 600 pounds necessitated special chairs, special bed, special vehicle, special coffin, ten pallbearers...
...Pittsfield, Mass., Stanley Andremewitz, 14, lay abed, slept serenely. Thunderheads crashed over the house; a bolt of lightning hurtled into a tree in the yard, shot over into Stanley's wall, flashed toward his very head, encountered a picture of Christ over the bed, smashed the glass, was deflected into the Andremewitz kitchen, doing Stanley no damage...
...that novel. Its titular figure is Peter Joel, border mystery-man, who dyed his doeskins black, sooted his face and flitted through the forests as an angel of warning to settlers and of destruction to Indians, after a band of redskins had yanked his wife naked from her blazing bed and scalped her before his eyes. The hero-perhaps Mr. Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason by his foppish, malicious French overlords and lives through to wed silken...
...tense, wiry Cornelius ("Neelie") Vanderbilt Jr. The Manhattan prints on his bed said that he was just back from Europe, where he had been gathering material-interviews and articles for serial publication-with which he expected to recoup his fortunes, which fell with his newspapers in Florida and California (TIME...
Bounding out of bed, dressing impeccably, packing his suitcase, giving instructions to his chauffeur-whom he had gone to Philadelphia to find-vivacious young Publisher Vanderbilt then sped off for Los Angeles, eager for a fresh start on his already eventful career...