Word: bedroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staggered out of his bedroom the other morning, rubbing his eyes to wipe away the queer apparitions of early awakening, it dawned upon Edwin R. (call me Mickey) Rooney, Jr. '46 that he was sharing his suite with some real strangers...
...disappears for hours to parley with a native chief. Then she suddenly goes back to Libreville, begging Timar to wait patiently till she returns. But the lonely Timar has learned that Adèle herself killed the native waiter, who had seen her leaving Timar's bedroom and threatened blackmail. He has also found that her parleys with the native chief were to bribe him to fix the murder on an innocent tribesman. She has gone to Libreville to spend the night with the Governor and put him in a good mood for the trial. Deftly, coolly, Author Simenon...
...business," she announced, to the horror of Hull House traditionalists who not only wanted to keep the place as a going concern but fixed in the course Jane Addams had set. They were also shocked by Miss Carr's smoking and cocktailing, by her taking Jane Addams' bedroom as her office. Charlotte Carr often mourned that Hull House was in danger of becoming a shrine...
...handiness with his fists. Before he was to attend a decorous dance in St. Louis, Jimmy Sr. warned him to keep his fists in his pockets. Jimmy Jr. came home with a look of guilt on his face. Without a word, Jimmy Sr. took him into a bedroom and walloped him. When his licking was over, Jimmy Jr. burst out: "Damn it, Pappy, the dance isn't until next Saturday...
Addams, whom Publisher Bennett Cerf describes as "the gentlest and the kindliest old schizophrene," and for whose work Boris Karloff (who contributes a foreword) has a "whole-souled admiration," is not preoccupied only with married life. From the specialized madnesses of the bedroom and boudoir it is only a stroke of the Addams' hand to universal madness. Drawn and Quartered includes his drawings of and that haunting simile of the mind's disintegration: ski tracks divided by a large tree...