Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Seventies. They were drawn there to the home of Mrs. William Bayard Cutting by the most dramatic Senatorial demise since the late Senator Walsh dropped dead two days before his elevation to the Cabinet. If Bronson Murray Cutting had died fortnight ago of prosaic disease in a prosaic bed, instead of meeting violent death in an airplane, his exit from the political stage would still have been dramatic. For like Mercutio he died an early death while the play was but half played...
...miles away and Nancy caught it both coming and going, the bombers dropping a part of their load on the way out and dumping the remainder on their way back. They did considerable property damage and killed a few civilians, but, aside from keeping the Frenchmen running from bed to dugout every time the siren sounded, their effects were negligible...
...flat where the nurse had been keeping them on her own savings, the children were driven to a hospital and there for a few hours they saw their mother, Arlette Stavisky. widow of France's most famed swindler, once Chanel's most beautiful model, propped up in bed with her leg in a most realistic bandage. The children could scarcely believe their eyes last week when Maman came home...
Propped up in bed with their breakfast trays and morning papers, sweet-smelling ladies were last week struck by horrid news: one of these days, when they buy one of the crown-shaped bottles of Prince Matchabelli perfumes or redden their lips with his lipsticks, they may be supporting the Soviet Government, helping toward the proletarian revolution...
...Vagabond chortles. For him "Spring's first flutes and drums" sound this morning; he has arisen, with an impulse of exquisite malice, at 8.30 and sits on the edge of his bed, knowing that the world is good and that men suffer. Already a few of the damned have twitched into topcoats and have set out on their mumbling way to the Yard. For each of them the Vagabond has a hypocritical smile of sympathy...