Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large bedroom of St. Louis' Coronado Hotel, a thin-haired little man who looks like a timid clerk last week shot com mands at eight tired businessmen. "Little Bill" Miller, probably the country's foremost relaxation expert, was holding class-at $100 a head for six one-hour lessons...
...Miller, ex-Scandals star, Hollywood danseuse, grabbed a revolver and blazed away into a tree outside her bedroom window. "I'm sure I didn't hit him, but he dropped off the tree, fell and scrambled," she reported. She said he wore shorts and had been looking in on her, off & on, for two months. "I can't shoot with a revolver," she apologized...
...presented again: the singed hairs on De Marigny's hands, arms, face and chest; the mark of his little finger on the smoke-smudged white screen that stood by Sir Harry's bed; the light that Neighbor Howard Lightbourne saw burning in the Count's bedroom that night; the fact that the shirt Freddy wore has never turned up and the wild things various police officers heard Freddy say in the days following the crime...
...support of Nancy Oakes de Marigny, 19-year-old wife of the accused, made themselves felt. Doubt was cast on the cause of the singed hairs; the possibility was opened up that De Marigny might have touched the screen two days after the struggle in Sir Harry's bedroom, and the name of Grisou, an ash-grey Maltese cat, was introduced to explain away the light in Freddy's bedroom...
...Brother Tommy- a "kind of stooge or straight man for my father." Tommy kept a sparrow hawk in his bedroom, "and whenever he came through the door, it shrieked ecstatically and did knee bends, like a man trying to decide whether the crotch in his pants was too tight...