Word: bedpost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still in fine shape when she is rescued by Sir John Templar's lawyer, who has forethoughtedly dropped poison in Sir William's rum. Indeed, the lawyer is so inflamed by Sabrina that he abducts her to Belgium, where he ties her daily to a bedpost and flogs her. Author Marshall's descriptions of these whippings seem almost pathological-until it is recalled that she is trying to portray the rich 18th century days of the East India Company, and is bound to take the rough with the smooth...
...longtime Baltimore favorite. A Johns Hopkins tradition attributes the following informal prescription to the great Dr. William Osier: 1) hang a hat on the bedpost, 2) go to bed and drink rock-and-rye until there are two hats on the bedpost...
...forerunners of Alcoholics Anonymous indulged in "a season of songs, prayers and expressions of neighborly interest" at the drunkard's bedside. This was guaranteed to cure all but the most stubborn cases. But one drunkard's wife sewed him up in a sheet, tied him to a bedpost, and called in the neighbors to look at him. Added Blanton: "He never touched liquor again. This was because he was so humiliated that he went out and hanged himself...
...American Freedom and Catholic Power," it would seem). The central character is a magazine publisher who is the Voice of Reason. His wife is the Eternal Hussy: the intelligent emancipated woman, who, while flaying with one hand the dragons her man must kill, still holds fast to the bedpost. There is a visitor to their household who writes modern Gothic novels about an evil spirit named Slime Shindigs, and who can see a little blue light hovering over the house. His function is to play Cassandra, which he does by jamming about the blue light and his damn Shindigs (which...