Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paintings were found. A hole had been smashed in the doorway of the fourth chamber and its contents were in confusion, hinting that some ancient thieves had been at work. Be that as it may, Mr. Carter discovered much that would quicken the pulse of any archaeologist: a bed, probably belonging to King Tut's Queen, supported by strange elongated lions bristling with beaten gold; several large picnic baskets filled with perfectly preserved dates; an ostrich feather fan, chiseled alabaster vases, ushabiti (statuettes religiously reputed to perform menial tasks for the dead). King Tut, as everyone knows, was buried...
...knew what he saw and rushed from one to another of his superiors giving the alarm, asking permission to change the course. One and all, the Texas' officers pooh-poohed the young busybody, who dashed at last to Rear Admiral Victor Blue, the commandant. Admiral Blue sprang from bed, but too late. The Texas ran aground on Fire Island. In gentlemanly fashion, Admiral Blue took the blame...
...many a vast revue and is, no doubt, widely revered. Herein she plays a U. S. miss at large in France. She, pursuing a svelt and penniless French nobleman, is pursued by an atrocious English nobleman. A group of clockwork dancing girls do steadily astonishing things. There is a bed room. Of the French nobleman it is said that had Elinor Glyn seen him before she wrote It the book's title would have been Those...
...resolutions which are after all the imresolutions which are after all the important things. For in no yague fashions do the festivities of celebration invoke a painful celebration that is conducive to the thumbing of leaves. After all, the sheet is clean, and since one makes one's own bed and has to lie in it, it does seem too bad to dirty the linen. Writers can wash it in public, but most people rounding the curve and seeing the straight stretch are too weak not to determine to keep the sprint unimpeded. And so they make resolutions...
...eldest oyster winked his eye And shook his heavy head; Meaning to say he DID NOT CHOOSE To leave the oyster bed...