Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers, on the same night that the public went confidently to bed, were confidently going to press. At midnight almost without warning, the pressmen suddenly abandoned the presses and " tore " off the " webs," destroying the evening's work. By the next afternoon enough men had been mustered to put out eight-page editions. The reporters functioned as usual; the editors then deleted most of what was written; the paper was set up in diminutive form and run off. The " combined " heads of ten morning papers and eleven evening papers were used as a joint protection so that...
...General Primo Rivera, the revolution is an almost exact analogy to the Fascist revolution of last year in Italy, which started in Milan; both these places are chief industrial centers, where the doctrines of socialism and communism were most securely rooted. It appears that all good Spaniards went to bed one night only to awaken next morning to find that a revolution had taken place, apparently without resistance and without bloodshed. Everyone accepted the new Government somewhat sheepishly, and the economic life of the country was undisturbed one jot or tittle...
...Lights. Practical jokers occasionally burden their friends with mechanical puzzles which admit of no solution. Likewise Bed Lights. It: is a mechanical mystery with hundreds, so it seems, of detectives. The villain pursues her (Marie Prevost) with strange batteries of crimson electricity. There is no solution...
Sudden illness brought to a halt the happy and almost triumphant return of the President from Alaska. Hardly more than a week earlier excessive fatigue had forced Mrs. Harding to take to her bed at Fairbanks, the furthest point of the Presidential journey. Easy stages on the return trip and thorough rest had restored Mrs. Harding, in part at least, when the President's illness came...
Shortly after the murder of Pancho Villa by his enemies, the New York American published a picture of him lying dead, stretched out on a bed in a Parral hospital. There was no trace of malignancy on his features as he lay there, stricken and inanimate. Not many newspapers equal the American in the spirit of enterprise...