Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same prank which replaced Lowell's picture with a Goya portrait of a woman in a Victory suit, the Bellboys' exhibit case was filled with open books bearing such titles as "The Bedroom Companion, or a Cold Night's Entertainment" and "The Freshman...
...hours, on their silent sneakers (except one officer, who wore just-as-silent bedroom slippers), they snipped wires, potted sentries, shot up pillboxes, made notes on Nazi fortifications. Then, without the loss of a man, they made their way under stiff German fire back through the barbed wire to their ships...
HAUNTED LADY-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nurse Adams is deputized by a police commissioner to watch over a wealthy widow whose bedroom is inexplicably visited by bats and rats. Outwitted momentarily by a clever murderer, Nurse Adams finally forces a confession. A clean-cut, quick-stepping yarn, minus the garrulous complexities of recent Rinehart stories...
According to Deputy Chief Caldwell of Cambridge's Central Fire Department, the conflagration was a "very serious, single alarm fire." Damage was estimated last night at $1500, $300 of which was confined to Thomas's bedroom, the rest being apportioned to damage resulting from smoke seeping into adjacent rooms and hallways...
...fire ruined most of Thomas's bedroom furniture, including bedclothes, curtains, and all articles within his dressing bureau's drawers, immediately after the fir engines arrived, firemen, supplied with gas masks, climbed up to the room and threw down into the street smoldering desk objects, books, and sofas...