Word: bedroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Lane receives state callers in his living room while his wife ducks discreetly into the kitchen-bedroom, where she also cooks the meals on a hot plate. Meanwhile some Embassy personnel work in Quonset-like huts in Warsaw's bomb-scarred lots...
...around it: Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County was what the nonliterary citizen would call a raw book and decidedly not for the high-school youngsters. One of its six short stories had 20 more or less detailed descriptions of sexual intercourse. But Memoirs was no flippant bedroom farce. Fat, fiftyish Author Wilson, book critic for the New Yorker, had written it as a critique of modern manners and morals. Most reviewers agreed that it was an honest and intelligent work; many a reviewer and reader found it labored, obscure, pedantic and depressing. By all the form charts...
Under the proposed plan, "the gross rental, exclusive of the furniture rental, may be adjusted to 25 percent of the total not family aggregate income." In no cases, however, will rents be adjusted to less than $38 for the one bedroom unit, $41 for the two bedroom unit, and $44 for the three bedroom unit...
...whom could theoretically qualify. But today many meetings - chiefly west of the Appalachians - employ regular pastors † One non-Quaker deeply affected by Elias Hicks was Walt Whitman. He considered Hicks's preaching one of the great experiences of his boyhood, kept a picture of Hicks in his bedroom as long as he lived...
...White House physician," Admiral Mclntire explains, "may not wait until the President picks up a germ, runs a temperature. . . . The job is to keep him well . . . and that entails daily observation. . . . [The] medicine man of the Great White Father must have the run of the place . . . in parlor, bedroom, and bath...