Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milk. "There is plenty of wine in the country, and people drink it with their meals, but they usually spend their evenings in coffeehouses, drinking strong coffee and hot milk. They sit in coffeehouses for hours, settle all the questions that vex the world, and go to bed at night happy and satisfied...
There was, there is a certain satisfaction in connecting things. So when the winds of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, whirled snow and cold air and an occasional cinder about the house with the room with the brass bed with the literary occupant, the literary occupant read two books, connected enough to satisfy the greatest stickler for good connections. For both the books concerned nephews, one, the glass relative of the Gentle Cardinal Peter Bon; the other, the equally transparent kinsman of the less gentle Betsy Trotwood. Dickens and Elinor Wylie! Then came a voice from a corner, crying...
Such was the music once to be heard in a certain house on a certain street in Chicago. The man that made it, a gaunt fellow with a nervous manner, very fond of practical jokes, used to sit up in bed late at night and early in the morning, writing, reciting and writing more. Of an afternoon he would go down to a newspaper office (The Record) where he was employed and have the poems put into type...
...Queen Alexandra. Last week she stood on the stage of Plymouth Hall and murmured in a rasping whisper that her cold had grown worse but that her protege, Luella Paikin, would substitute for her. Five minutes after she left the platform she broke down, summoned a physician, went to bed...
Died. Lucien S. Hanks, 87, pioneer banker of Madison, Wis., famed because of his much bruited assertion that Abraham Lincoln once kicked him out of a bed (at the home of William Talman in Janesville, Wis.) in which they had attempted to sleep. Mr. Hanks often said: "That long, gaunt man was so nervous that he twitched and tossed and kicked and snored until, in desperation, I went out into the hall and made a bed on the floor, where I slept the rest of the night...