Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Witnesses testified that the sisters often invited high school athletes to their home, where they played romantic radio music, served liquor, and interspersed nude can-can dances with frequent trips to the bedroom with their young guests
Edmund Wilson, whether he liked it or not, was safe from the horrid publicity of a Boston book-banning. His Memoirs of Hecate County with its bedroom blueprints would not outrage Boston, because Doubleday publishers decided not to bother sending it there...
...amazing assortment of evasions, half-truths and untruths activate the kilocycles. Radio actresses whose only acquaintance with hose washing is an occasional rinsing of ... nylons in a hotel bedroom . . . stand before microphones and read 'authentic testimonials' about soap flakes...
...second-floor bedroom of Washington's Blair House, Léon Blum put on his blue & white striped pajamas, settled down to read François René de Chateaubriand's Atala, American Indian romance told of the days when "France possessed . . . a vast empire stretching from Labrador to Florida, from the shores of the Atlantic to the remotest lakes of upper Canada." Now France's imperial glory was gone, and her aging but active special emissary, only ten months out of a Nazi prison, had come to the shores of the former colony to plead...
There is the honest, talented writer who has never published a serious book, but priggishly signs his detective stories with a nom de plume. He winds up cadging drinks, clowning out parody first lines of poems, and warming up bedroom scenes in a hack-written best-seller about two U.S. families who take part in every war since the Revolution. ("After all, I was the person who suggested the whole idea of having Nancy Gaylord be the mother of Walt Whitman's illegitimate child-it's terrific. He meets her at the Mardi Gras and lays...