Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woke up in the morning feeling that I had passed through a nightmare, and as soon as I had remembered the events of the night before I sat up in bed and reached with trembling hands for the newspapers which were beside me. As I read them one by one, I was filled with a feeling, first of indignation, then of astonishment, and then of amusement. Of my voice they said practically nothing. They seemed to be concerned solely with my powers as an actress. . . . And I know that in those days I could...
...mildest, most hopeful form of chorea. Children, especially girls, are susceptible to this disease, which is usually the expression of mental exhaustion, although it may be an end result of maldevelopment or of various contagious diseases?tonsillitis, measles, whooping cough. Cure is usually effected by quiet surroundings, rest in bed, full diet with plenty of fatty ingredients (milk, eggs), and above all the eliminating of the causative conditions. Relapses occur?the signs of trembling, twitching, dancing, muscular incoordination often reappear at the end of an exhausting school semester...
Besides gruff Laureate Tennyson and sombre George Eliot, Lanice in England interviews chambermaids and a bed freshly and mockingly impressed by a man's figure, in God-Begot House, Winchester, the morning that Anthony Jones embarks for Arabia...
...permanent peace rests with Sears Ripley, a devoted, sensitive widower, who brings it to pass by being not only patient and understanding but sufficiently muscular to carry her up to bed when, heavy with their first child, she is on the point of wishing she were a mooncalf again instead of a daughter and mother of her persistent species...
...team work of a football field took the place of military discipline; but the boys flew, repaired, overhauled and flew again their few machines, until by September there were 28 trained flyers ready for war. Then Trubee Davison, their leader, crashed and broke his back, but from his bed, and later from his wheel chair, he still held the "Unit" spirit together, even when the members scattered to distant duties...