Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldier's Return. In Rhinelander, Wis., Lieut. Donald Karr got home from the European Theater early in the morning, slipped quietly into his parents' bedroom, shouted "Surprise!", woke up the new tenants...
Harry Truman arrived late in the afternoon by automobile from Joplin. He walked briskly to the white, five-room house where he once lived, posed for photographs and newsreels in the 10 by 6 ft. bedroom where he was born...
George Norris was 83 when he lay down for the last time in the front bedroom of the big, stucco house on Main Avenue. One morning last week he was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage. For a day he was conscious of the August sun on the hackberry trees and lilac bushes which he had planted. Then more fever came, and coma, and his old heart stopped...
...showdown came at 7 in the morning. German General von Neubronn ordered his SS men to break down the door to old Marshal Petain's bedroom. To the half-dressed Chief of the Vichy State, he issued an ultimatum...
Heroic Ugliness. Horn-rimmed Auctioneer Harry Loree moved from bedroom to bedroom, followed by a herd of bidders. In each room he mounted a chair, addressed his audience in machine-gun auctionese: "I have eight dollars bid for the pier-mirror eight dollars eight dollars eight dollars SOLD to what's the name please?" Prices were middling: $25 for most of the marble-topped dressers, $3 to $50 for figured carpets, $20 apiece for twin brass beds. One of the 888-ft. long red Axminster carpets from a hallway brought $1, 600. For the two florid front-lawn urns...