Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace and plenty, bed and board...
...march from a Texas greenhorn in 1903 to Speaker of the House in 1931 upon the death of his great & good Republican friend Nicholas Longworth. But Jack Garner, with his love for poker and baseball, his fondness for a good highball with good friends, his habit of going to bed every night at 9 o'clock sharp, did not fit the public concept of an able politician, much less of a great statesman...
Brain Squeeze. When they suddenly sit up, stand up, drop into a chair, fall into bed or tumble, some people get dizzy, may even develop headaches. Immediate cause: sudden shifting of blood and other fluids within the brain, skull and spinal column. These squeeze the brain unduly. Usual underlying cause: hardening of the arteries and failure of the subtle body mechanism which should instantaneously regulate blood pressure and circulation...
...Oklahoma City, the girl chosen as Webster Junior High School's Healthiest Girl was discovered in bed with scarlet fever, her runner-up in bed with mumps...
...lived at the Russian court, waiting for the aging Empress Elizabeth to die, waiting-what was worse-for her neurotic husband to make her his wife. The first nine of those years they lived together, and Catherine did her wifely duty as her husband saw it: at night, in bed, she helped him play with dolls, in the daytime at soldiers. Because she had to do something with her spare time, and because she was ambitious, she read hard, got herself an education. Catherine's only use was as brood mare to the new dynasty, and since her husband...