Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stupidity meant little to the hundred gentlemen. They waited outside the jail while two of their number opened the outer gate with acetylene torches-then the inner gate, then the door of Jackson's cell. The torch glare leaped into his eyes as he started up in bed...
Shortly after midnight on the following morning Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, was roused from his bed and summoned to the house in which the Duchess lay, according to immemorial royal custom.† At 2:40 a. m. a daughter was born. Her first act, according to witnesses, was to yawn at Sir William Joynson-Hicks...
...Then the President told about an owl that had flown into his bedroom the previous night. It was a common screech owl, and perched first on his bed post, then on the clothes press. The President regarded the owl steadily; the owl regarded him. The President made no utterance; the owl did not hoot. "He was not a noisy owl," said the President. "He came quietly, went quietly...
...foxy-grandpa cheek. But for the most part they were new hands-economic malcontents and idealists recruited from the younger generation. There were names like Klein, Lozowick, Soglow and Dehn signed to some of the pictures. A young lady called Wanda Gag contributed a startling portrait of "The Tired Bed...
...weeks ago questionnaires were sent to the students, all of whom were required not only to answer a long series of questions, but also to give the university authorities information dealing with such matters as how long they spent at meals and in bed, the amounts of their allowances, earnings, the income of their families, and why they wanted to go to college. In addition, they were required to keep a time chart for a week, showing in detail their activities for every hour of the day and night from April...