Word: bedroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Contos sued his Greek-born wife for divorce because she refused to adopt the U.S. swim suit. In London, Stanley George Edwards won a divorce when he complained that his wife not only hit him with a poker, threw a bread knife at him and sprinkled tacks on the bedroom floor, but put brilliantine in his sugar...
...Deputy Fausto Gullo, a peevish pout on his face, charged his enemies with the old tactics of Lysistrata.* Cried he: "These last elections have been shameful. The government used unthinkable methods to win its majority. Do you want an example? Priests openly counseled wives to go on a 'bedroom strike' if the Communists won the elections...
...Blue-Papered Bedroom. Last week it was again time for gypsydom's traditional pilgrimage to Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a small fishing village in the wild Rhone delta, to pay homage to their patron Saint Sarah.t Once Romanies from all over the world came; last week, only the French gypsies were there. The others were unable to move across the world's new frontiers and new orders...
...night, gypsies held watch over St. Sarah's tomb, the faint flicker of smoky yellow wax candles reflected in their jet-black eyes. They also remembered Cou-cou, their last "king," who had settled down in a house with a blue-papered bedroom. Recently, possibly because of his overly soft life, he had passed on to the realm "where a sweeter music is and where the prince of fiddlers plays...
...North Africa. Already past 72, he went on writing in an Arab village near Tunis, completed his translation of Hamlet. He learned La Fontaine's fables by heart and later founded a literary review (L'Arche) in liberated Algiers. A stream of bigwigs came to his bedroom-study to pay their respects. Communists in the Algiers Consultative Assembly paid theirs by asking that he be tried and put to death. In the spring of 1945 he returned to Paris...