Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Memorable Beginning. As small Michael I went in last week to his first kingly supper at the Little Pelesh, and afterward as he was put to bed, how much did he remember of the strange, crowded day of his investiture...
...under which cockroaches and other room vermin made their nests. Cockroaches for a long time were thought by so able a scientist as Dr. Johannes Fibiger, rector of the University of Copenhagen, to be a cause of cancer (TIME, Nov. 8). Also, Paris green, once popular for killing cockroaches, bed bugs and like triflers, is made of arsenic...
Died. Charles Fuller Baker, founder and dean of Los Banos Agricultural College* at the University of the Philippines, brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson"); at Manila, P. I. For eight years he had lived in a village shack, sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, halving his salary with War-impoverished fellow-scientists in Europe. He furnished the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Vienna and the Philippines with extensive zoological collections; left a collection at Los Banos including 50,000 insect specimens...
...streets of Florence a woman of the aristocracy dressed with the most rigid economy, who wore on her naked breast a gold cross. The symbol of sacrifice and sorrow joined with the crudest form of mundanity; the emblem of redemption resting on perfumed flesh; the blessed, mortal bed of Christ put in contrast with an instrument of the most lascivious seduction...
...tobacco and old pipes, bottles of acids and a violin case? seemed to be in disorder, but one had a feeling that their owner could find them, even though blindfolded. Dr. Watson and Billy, the page, were worrying around the room because the owner, Sherlock Holmes, had gone to bed with instructions that he wanted dinner "at seven-thirty, the day after tomorrow...