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Word: beds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demanded a constitutional convention to remove, once & for all, the "rotten borough" system. On the day the bill came up for vote, two Republicans were sick abed, three Democrats opposed it. Not to be caught napping a second time, Republicans dragged 69-year-old Senator Frank E. Payne from bed, stuck him on a couch in the Senate lounge, had a nurse prime his weak heart so that he could vote. Before Republicans or Democrats could charge each other with the old man's "murder," anxious relatives trundled him back to bed. Meanwhile ten hours of wrangling convinced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Democracy Downed | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Anon, I to Mr. Hersey's class and there did hear one pretty Dorothy Speare, author of the film, "One Night of Love", discover "Aristotle in Hollywood". I was much surprised to learn that Mae West neither smokes nor drinks and goes to bed at nine. How these flickers fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/20/1936 | See Source »

...Tower to read my thesis again and, very happy, so to bed, the moon shining in my face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/20/1936 | See Source »

Said the one virtuous woman (you may be sure the author made her most undesirable) "I have stood for everything else, but this morning I find a naked woman in my husband's bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Then I knew I was indeed without hope. Were I in a strange man's bed, I should at least want to have on a pretty nightgown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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