Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford went to bed at nine in a cold bedroom. At 11:15 Clara Ford heard her husband's voice. She got him a drink of water. She roused the chauffeur and sent him off to the nearest telephone to call Dr. John Mateer of the Ford Hospital, which the old man had endowed. But before Dr. Mateer arrived a cerebral hemorrhage had done its work. In the cold, hushed room, Henry Ford, aged 83, had died by the light of old-fashioned kerosene lamps and flickering candles...
Grand Slam. In London, William Deven slammed his wife's bedroom door with such vigor that the three-story facade of the house fell off, crashed to the ground...
Aroused by fumes seeping into her second story bedroom, Gardner's wife Laura raced downstairs at 5:15 o'clock and found the living room ablaze. She immediately roused her guests and then sounded the alarm, but the engines of the near-by Cambridge fire department arrived too late to save her husband, who, trapped in the flaming living room, tried vainly to escape through the window...
...name and marked some imperial milestones. After Anne, England's next Queen was a demure little German Princess of 18, who stepped out of a life circumscribed by a domineering and jealous mother, to mount the throne and demand for the first time the right to a private bedroom. A half-century later, wide-eyed Victoria had become an aged Empress with drooping jowls, and her Kingdom a true Empire heavy with gold, black with industrial soot, and red with the blood of conquest...
...advertisement in the English-language Brazil Herald brought results. The owner wanted no key money; he did not want to sell any furniture. For a big living room, dining room, bedroom and tiny guest room we thought it a gift...