Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting up in bed with his morning paper, President Roosevelt found a nasty story glaring him in the face. At a crossing just outside Washington a Baltimore & Ohio express train had whipped into a school bus, scattered the corpses of 14 youngsters over 200 yards of right-of-way (see p. 32). That news provided him with a jumping-off spot for a new task: the job of "personally" spending $4,880,000,000 on work relief. Same day he announced that $200,000,000 would be spent in eliminating grade crossings on main-line tracks...
...Wreck, Put-putting motorboats carried the French and British out from their hotel to Emperor Napoleon's erstwhile palace on an island where Benito Mussolini slept nightly last week in "the Josephine bed." Il Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands...
Equally undecided was Chauffeur George Stoner: "Mrs. Rattenbury called up to me 'Come down and help me get "Rats" to bed.' I wiped up the blood at her instructions. No, I did the job myself...
...fact only 670 were killed-a mere fleabite in these Belisha days. In 1928 more than double that number were killed [in traffic accidents] in the streets of London. Now the returns are astronomical, but because of the dangers of the streets I do not sleep under my bed...
Last fortnight, after Lucille had gone to bed, Mrs. Walgreen showed her husband a mimeographed quiz for an English course which Lucille had brought home. Lucille was to take one of a list of quotations, discuss it as "a starting point from which to frame a new social policy for the problems which we now confront." Mr. Walgreen's eyes ran down the list, stopped in horror and amazement at a quotation from Russia's Primer by M. Ilin...