Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single time I have to attend to anything, whether it's a horse, or a telegram from goodness knows who, or a hole in the wall, or getting the windows washed, it is a distinct effort, like climbing a hill. . . ." When she can occasionally take a day in bed with an incipient cold, it is a great relief. "Nothing to do for a whole day-not to have to cope! I am able to cope, and one has to in this country; but I get tired of it, sometimes. I am not a born coper, like Evangeline; I have...
...guides, sideshow attractions in amusement parks. Their chief recreation consists of listening to phonograph records, drinking a mixture of moonshine and Sloan's liniment. A Seminole marriage is complete when the bride's family has provided a shirt for the groom; the groom's family, a bed; and the groom has moved into the bride's house. To divorce his wife a Seminole husband simply moves out. Florida "crackers," delighted at having a few humans on whom they can look down, amuse themselves by shooting the Seminoles' hogs...
Gutturals & Magnetism. Always the basis of Adolf Hitler's strategy is surprise. He let Sir John and Captain Eden go to bed in the Hotel Adlon, sleep, arise and breakfast under the impression that they would lay the basis for negotiation in a quiet morning at the German Foreign Office with Baron von Neurath and without Adolf Hitler. Abruptly at the last minute the morning-coated English and German diplomats were summoned to the Realm-chancellery where they found The Leader lounging in a loose brown jacket behind his great, document-piled desk...
...Slumberland, were a lovely little Princess, daughter of King Morpheus; an officious, green-faced fellow named Flip who always wore a yellow top hat and held a long cigar between his huge lips; a grass-skirted savage named Impie. Last panel in every page showed Nemo at home, in bed, waking from his dream...
...patient? We almost forgot. He just sat down in the corridor to wait until someone should recover and leave and bed...