Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turns out his bed-light...
...city agreed with Addie?regular hours, meals with green vegetables, sliding down the brass fireman's-pole and running upstairs to do it again. As years went by and she still came and perched on his bed in her nightie to kiss him good morning, Jim trembled to see her French blood fast rounding and ripening her into a woman. The city agreed with Mr. Fippany, too. Long a jaunty gambler, he pulled his hat devilishly over one brown eye and drove about the city, his two mules and a string of ravishing bells marking him for no ordinary junk...
...Lesage. In 1912, working as he had worked for 20 years far down in a black bowel of the earth, Augustin heard "voices," like those Joan of Arc declared called her, telling him to stop mining and go to draw and paint. Thinking himself feverish, he went home to bed, whence a power drove him to a city to buy complete painter's equipment, none of the names for which had Augustin ever before known. Back in his cottage, he painted-or rather a spirit within him did, who signed the canvases "Leonardo da Vinci"-exotic decorative designs, Oriental...
...Lihue, on the island of Kauai, the men were given injections of morphine and put to bed in the dim alcoves of an ancient hotel to sleep the clock around. The Navy Department appointed Commander Rodgers Assistant Chief of the Aeronautics Bureau. In the U. S. thousands of mothers, reading of Mrs. Rodger's still, remarked: "Now will you wear your rubbers...
Tossed in jeopardy on the prone sea, or waiting in anguish by a sick-bed while a human spirit wags and gutters in the draught of death, men pray rashly, and implore with extravagant promises the mercy of the Deity. If Christ will deliver them out of their peril, they swear to burn every evening a tall candle before His Mother's shrine; if he will let their darling live, they will erect a church to his glory. The sea grows calm; disease leaves the wracked body. Men smile, and forthwith forget both their anguish and their vows...