Word: bedroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PEOPLE We Interrupt This Program... A San Francisco electrical engineer named D. Reginald Tibbetts was sitting up late amid the clutter of radio equipment in his bedroom. At 4:27 in the morning (P.W.T.), listening to the dit-dah-dah of fast Morse, he began transcribing a Domei News Agency broadcast: "The Japanese Government are ready to accept. . . ." At the same time, in a white frame house in Portland, Ore., an FCC monitor picked up the same exciting news -Japan was officially offering to surrender...
...scared of Jack's family."" She hoped to see the Brooklyn Dodgers play, but added determinedly: "I don't promise to support them just because Jack does." At the Brooklyn end of the wire Mother-in-law Schwartz asked how they (Pam and Sergeant Jack) wanted their bedroom done. Said Pam: "In crushed strawberry and white...
...last week. He dropped in at his uncle's house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The family were all away, but White House Secretary Matthew Connelly, who had had word from the President that the sergeant might arrive, bowed him in, put him up in the northeast bedroom...
...actors have been long forgotten. Edgcumb Pinchon revives them again, in the first biography of one of the 19th Century's most eccentric and notorious U.S. characters. Like many recent biogra-phies, Dan Sickles is partly straight fact, partly imaginary reconstruction of likely facts (especially in the bedroom scenes). It suffers from writing so thick with emotion that Hero Sickles often emerges from obscurity only to be buried in gush. But it leaves clear the fact that Daniel Sickles is the season's rarest historical find...
...observed Sickles' friend Mark Twain, "that if the General had to lose a leg, he'd rather lose the one he has than the one he hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with a lion cub, Sickles gave a litter...