Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, after spending a weekend at Madison, Wis., as guest of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, was asked how he passes the time at Cedar Island Lodge. Said he: "Eat breakfast. Take a little walk. Read. Eat lunch. Walk. Read. Eat dinner. Walk. Read. Go to bed...
Thereafter Mr. Kellogg lunched with Ambassador Herrick, spoke with M. Aristide Briand ("a pleasant talk"), again dined at the Herrick table, and so to bed...
With mercenary indignation, she goes to bed with the Major in a room above the bar. When he comes out of this room, the Major looks over the banisters at tru café, full of the black soldiers of his regiment, drinking and laughing and watching a Senegalese Negro, who, in red breeches, is dancing, with a knife in his hand...
Every day for over half a century, Louis XIV, every inch a king, played slave to. etiquette. Epitome of the day's procedure was his royal arising, witnessed daily by some 300 fawning souls. Only the Family could observe his semi-divinity lying in bed, but the next order of noblemen was admitted to see him dip his hand in holy water, climb out of bed, and don his dressing gown. The third order then entered to see the king shave and put on his wig. And last came the final rabble of cardinals, marshals, courtiers, to observe...
...last act exhibits further highlights in the sky pilot's hypocritical career. He is the Rev. Dr. Elmer Gantry now, but no less eager to share a bed of shame. At the end, there is no lessening of his success nor any change of tactics. He is seen spewing, before an unseen congregation, a prayer that "we may make this a moral nation...