Word: bedroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said this, is turning out $60,000 worth of aircraft accessories under subcontract for Cleveland's Pump Engineering Service Corp. (which makes hydraulic parts for Martin bombers). He is doing it with machine tools he built or converted himself. His factory is the dining room, kitchen, laundry, one bedroom, and garage of his middle-class Columbus, Ohio home. Two of his 22 employes are ex-convicts whom he met at the Ohio State Penitentiary...
...sobar, saddened Vag Closed the book and lit a cigarette. For three minutes he was silent, pensive. Then with one integrated motion he crushed the butt into an ashtray, tossed the book onto a table, and rose out of his chair. He crossed over to his roommate's bedroom...
Earl Carroll set an urn on his bedroom mantel in Hollywood, prepared to live with the ashes of his brother, Major James, who left Carroll his $10,000 estate with the stipulations: 1) that his ashes be kept in the bedroom, 2) that one-third of the estate be handed over to ex-Showgirl Josie Posie De Forrest. The brother's will explained of the ashes, "It may be possible that I will be able to listen in on conversations even though I am just ashes"; of Josie Posie, "After all our battles and loving...
When Novelist West was ten, "Alexander Obrenovitch, King of Serbia, and his wife Draga were murdered in the Palace at Belgrade, and their naked bodies thrown out of their bedroom into the garden. . . . The crime lingered in my mind only because of its nightmare touches. The conspirators blew open the door of the Palace with a dynamite cartridge which fused the electric lights, and they stumbled about blaspheming in the darkness, passing into a frenzy of cruelty that was half terror. The King and Queen hid in a secret cupboard in their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers...
Though Pierre Mercadier is the central figure of this book, the broad current of Aragon's story flows over and around him through four generations, with the steady popping of political and social disturbances in the background. Coincidence and the bedroom are in constant use. Aragon has a flair for the ironic or cruel anticlimax, for impaling passing figures on needle-pointed paragraphs...