Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, Bim Elbert, dog, was reported as being paid quarters and dimes for tidying the Elbert premises, for minding the Elbert car, for carrying the Elbert market-basket, for going to bed promptly, for not whining or barking or "playing with other dogs." He was said to go to the bank with his weekly savings, deposit them with the teller, wait for his pass book, trot home. His balance was "$68 with no withdrawals." He was saving "against the infirmities...
...Preston, Eng., a nervous wreck crawled into his bed, refused to communicate with newspaper reporters. This wreck was Maj. Arnold Wilson, promoter of the light heavyweight fight between Tom Gibbons, of St. Paul, and "Basking" Jack Bloomfield, of England, in Wembley Stadium (TIME, Aug. 11). Reasons for the Major's breakdown were that his balance sheet showed a loss of some ?12,000; that Tom Gibbons, sailing for the U. S., had instructed attorneys to collect a missing ?8,061 of ?10,000 promised him by the Major: and his friends...
...nervous wreck who crawled into his bed...
This is the man who rises at 5 a.m., spends 15 minutes running or playing with the medicine ball, and repeats his exercises before going to bed. The result is that at 63 he retains his figure, his physical fitness, his disposition and his simplicity...
...Brooklyn, one Lawrence Esposito, 130 pounds, awoke in the night hearing some one in his room. He leaped from his bed, scratching, kicking, beating, flooring the intruder. He then discovered his antagonist was 380-pound Mrs. Esposito...