Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respectable quiet of East Side Cleveland one night last week an old man ate poisoned mushrooms, died in wriggling agony. A merchant was smothered with a bed pillow and his corpse dragged into a cellar. A prostitute let out a blood-chilling scream as she was pushed to her death in an icy black lake. Yet as the heroine of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (pronounced Muhzjensk), the woman responsible for these three atrocious murders was really a gentle soul whom only the sternest moralist would blame for her crimes...
...clerk named Sergei starts the trouble. He squeezes the cook playfully, rolls her in a barrel while the peasants laugh uproariously.* Just for fun, Katerina accepts Sergei's challenge to wrestle with him in the courtyard. Because she has been lonely and restrained, she lets him into her bed after a minor struggle. There the father-in-law catches them, flogs the clerk until his bare back bleeds. For that Katerina feeds the old man mushrooms, seasoned with rat poison. His vitals burn and gnaw. A priest is summoned. "I die like a rat," gurgles the father...
...bed when I do, but see that you get up early...
Eventually the pair got down to the business of eating from the top of the chest. But if the wife was nervous she kept it bravely from the audience. Finally she said "If you'll excuse," handed the Pasha the key to the chest and swept off to bed. The Pasha wanted a cigaret but his lighter failed him. So he listened to a flute which was supposed to be a nightingale, then summoned a servant who helped him lug the suspicious box into the garden, there dig a grave...
After the concert Yehudi had a birthday supper with his family and a few close friends. When he had gobbled his chicken salad and his ice cream & cake he was dispatched to bed. Two days later, for a special treat, he was taken to see In the Pasha's Garden...