Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coming from a sick bed that had kept him from the field of battle for an entire month, Robert M. La Follette appeared in the Senate for the first time this session. There was welcome...
...During the proceedings in the Assembly a bitter attack was made on Venizelos by Admiral Hadjikiriakos, leader of the Greek irreconcilables. Before the speech was finished M. Venizelos suffered a heart attack, was taken home. He was ordered to bed, and, although he was reported to be recovering, his indisposition halted all political action...
...when conditions are against the enemy. That is what is happening now. All things are against the rebels. . . . My wife said that I would surely die if I took the field. My answer was that I would sooner die on the field as a soldier than be caught in bed. Really, this revolt has improved my health. The change from civilian clothes to my old military uniform seems to have acted as a tonic. I am feeling much better than for many months...
...last fight was with Bill Brennan,six weeks ago. He knocked Brennan out in the fourth round. In 1920, when attacked by Bright's disease for the first time, he said: "If I am going to die, it might as well happen in the ring as in bed. Tell me what to do and I will beat this sickness...
...name at his own lighted window is one to be perpetuated by generations of Harvard men. To be sure, Harvard may be too indifferent to its wealth of traditions. But the average senior prefers sleep to an overindulgence in any custom whatsoever. If Reinhardt were put to bed at ten P. M. every night there are few who would miss...