Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge organization, and announced that he would open National headquarters. There he will be in close touch with James W. Good of Iowa and James B. Reynolds of Illinois, sub-chieftains. Secretary C. Bascom Slemp takes responsibility for the South. Meanwhile, bending their constant efforts, practically taking bed and board at the White House, are Frank W. Stearns of Boston and Colonel George Harvey of Peacham...
...When members of my household urged me to take shelter from the elements, I replied: 'I must hear the sound of the waves, the whistle of the wind and the fall of the raindrops. To write one must be next to nature!' Next day found me in bed with a severe attack of tonsilitis. Said the Daily News, New York newspaper: 'What our poets need most is not to get next to nature, but to get next to themselves. As for d'Annunzio, he ought at least to have his tonsils removed...
This sort of thing is characteristic of singers. Caruso in the midst of his fatal illness sang a performance in Brooklyn when he should have been in bed. Half way through he suffered a hemorrhage of the throat had to stop. His rashness helped him to the grave...
...morning that reveals one eminent statesman kicked out of bed by another...
William H. Taft: "I was awakened from my sleep by innumerable telephone calls from newspapermen. They said that radio fans had picked up a report that I was dead. Said I: 'So far as I know, the report is without foundation.' Then I marched back to bed...