Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more I thought of it, the less I liked its appearance," Mr. Patten testified. Why should Treasurer Upham dispose of bonds belonging to the G. O. P. so privately when there was a quick public market for them any day? Mr. Patten worried about it in bed that night. Next day he rid himself of these queer bonds by giving them as his subscription to the Evanston Hospital...
Mary Baker Eddy, as she lingered on after 80, became more and more conscious of the malignance of her "enemies," against whom her disciples kept single watch around her bed, when she felt pain in the night. These enemies were the "mortal minds" most energetic in attacking her beliefs; they hung like a pack of phantoms around her neat house in Chestnut Hill and she could hear their painful voices screaming in the dark. Once she went for a drive with Mr. Dickey and said this to him on their return...
...like the game best, but the young men are the champions. The headquarters of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association is in Akron, Ohio. A horseshoe pitcher uses two horseshoes, each weighing 2½ Ibs. He tosses them at an iron stake 40 ft. away, protruding 8 in. above a bed of potters clay. Then his opponent does likewise. The shoe that lands nearest the stake scores 1 point; a ringer 3 points; a double ringer 6 points. The first player to score 50 points wins the game. In championship matches, calipers and a straight edge are used to determine accurately...
...mont went West with famed Kit Carson, observed buffalo, ate dog meat, charted the Continental Divide. Returning to Washington where Jessie lay in childbirth, he spread over her bed a ragged flag, said: "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...
...California to look after his troublesome Mariposa properties, also made friends with Bret Harte who called Jessie a "fairy godmother." Then Lincoln was elected President and Civil War smouldered. Frémont became Commander of the Department of the West with headquarters in St. Louis. Missouri was a bed of sectional emotions; Frémont was a hot-headed commander; there were a "Hundred Days" of trouble. Lincoln removed him after he had declared martial law and prematurely emancipated the slaves in Missouri. He was given another chance as general in Virginia, but failed and fell out completely with Lincoln...