Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seven-thirty and a cold morning! How I hate to get out of my bed and shut down the two windows between which my bed is placed, but at last I screw up my courage and with a leap I am out on the floor and hastily closing the windows. Then 15 minutes of setting-up exercises, a cold sponge and on with my riding clothes...
...Supreme Court were officially dismayed and privately rather flattered'. For six weeks they had held an unparalleled place in the sun. Although the Court is divided five to four on society, even the four Justices whose evenings are almost invariably spent in solitude-Justice Sutherland resting venerably in bed, Justice Van Devanter mourning for his wife, Justice Brandeis sitting up with a detective story, Justice Cardozo burning the midnight oil over the classics of law and literature- even they felt an unwonted thrill. For the majority of the Court who appear in society the six weeks were a succession...
...must to all women, Death came last week to May Etheridge, 42, former Duchess of Leinster. Her grace vanished, her beauty gone. Her Former Grace was found sprawled across a bed in Brighton with a bottle of poison by her side. Since 1930 she had been living on $25 a week provided by the Duke's family with the understanding that she would not return to the stage and would make no effort to see her son. the present Marquess of Kildare and heir to the Dukedom...
...more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that a friend had sent...
From Rome every year a number of black-cassocked seminarians go home on vacation, take unto themselves wives, bed them legally. Presently, with the sanction of the Roman Catholic Church, these youths are ordained subdeacons. Later, men of family though they may be, they become priests. Unique in the Catholic clergy, such married priests are members of certain Uniat sects once estranged from Rome, now reunited, differing slightly in practice but accepting the full authority of the Pope...