Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seat. The crowd craned their necks. The Justices stared. At length Chief Justice Hughes rose and the Justices filed out of the chamber. Mr. Reed was helped to a private room. A cup of coffee was fetched for him. After 30 minutes he went home and to bed. Next day the Department of Justice announced that Mr. Reed would plead no more in the case of Lee Moor. Instead, a Government brief would be filed with the Court...
Figure, then, the distress of our hero, for he was awakened to the dreary world of fact by a gentle rocking of his bed, and the first sight to meet his bleary eyes was a grinning agent of Uncle Sam, dressed in blue. Young men in such positions are not particularly logical or observant. Therefore it was only after several terrifying seconds that our hero observed that his strange guest was only a mailman tendering a special delivery letter. Ever since he has been biterly cursing the paternalism of this administration, which makes mailmen so solicitous...
...crowd at 100,000, and Nancy Brown began to rival Edgar A. Guest of the Detroit Free Press as the city's top literary figure. When she announced a religious Sunrise Service for her Column Family on Belle Isle last year, some 30,000 Detroiters crawled out of bed to attend. For a similar service this year attendance jumped, in Editor Gilmore's reckoning, by "two and a half acres" of people. When that alert local preacher named Edgar DeWitt Jones volunteered as Column Chaplain and invited Column Folks to visit his church in alphabetical sections, the church...
...self-starter for motorcars -was developed for Henry M. Leland, onetime head of Cadillac. General Motors got Mr. Kettering when they got Delco and Mr. Kettering is now head of General Motors Research Division. One of his inventions is a gadget for opening bedroom windows without getting out of bed...
When I did awake from my nap I found it was too late to go to the play at Duke's. And so to the Tower by moonshine and thence to my chamber whereupon I did take a physik to settle the mutton and by and by to bed...