Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Electrolux Tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren, whose yacht Southern Cross rescued 399 Athenians (TIME, Sept. 11), added to the picture in his story for a Swedish newspaper: "The rooms, hallways and decks were crowded with hundreds of half-naked people. Many had been lying in bed, seasick . . . had to rush out on deck undressed. Many of the survivors were drenched with oil from the Athenians oil tanks which were shattered by the explosion...
...days later, that England & France had gone to war against Germany, the 80-year-old man was awakened out of his life-end siesta. He called his wife Hermine and entourage into his modest living room and led them in prayer. Then he went upstairs, knelt by the bed where his first wife, Empress Augusta-Victoria had died 18 years before, and prayed again, alone. After that the old man seemed to take a new lease on life. Downstairs, in the great hall, he spread before him a map of Poland and, as once again he heard the boom...
...Pierpont Morgan, Steelman Myron C. Taylor, Cineman Harry M. Warner, Author Erich Maria Remarque and 2,327 other passengers. Some of them had slept on the floor, some on cots in the public rooms. Mr. Morgan, who usually takes a suite, had occupied a small room containing one small bed. But, said he, it was "the size I always sleep in at home. Really, I don't have a bed half an acre large." Mr. Warner was in a warlike mood, bluntly maintained that "the liberty and freedom we obtained from fighting the British we will now have...
...that he gets safely home to bed...
...took three precarious minutes, left Fred gasping and half-strangled. Gradually Fred Snite improved. Most of the time he stays in the big tank, but for five or six hours a day he can get along with a light, chest-sized inhalator which he wears sitting propped up in bed. From month to month the period during which he can breathe by himself has been extended (record to date: one hour and three minutes) but during these periods, as a precaution, he wears the small inhalator with the motor shut...