Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest esteem not only by the athletic directors of the other colleges in the east, but by the chief executives as well. He is a gentleman and a sportsman who has made the most of his opportunities in a position which could be termed anything but a bed of roses. He has seen fit to appoint Dick Harlow head coach at Harvard and from the standpoint of getting one who knows football from the ground up and can get the most out of the boys playing it he could not have made a better selection...
With Irene, who has just had her 16th birthday, it is different. She likes Sir John well enough but the notion of his sharing her mother's bed fills her with repugnance and horror. Irene has been deluded into believing that her mother's first marriage was a happy one. When Sir John and Mrs. Lawrence go off to be wed at his country place. Irene slips out into the February night to drown herself in the Thames. She changes her mind but almost freezes to death in the process. It takes the combined reasoning of Sir John, her frantic...
...sitting at ease by a gas-log fire, not nearly so nonplused and frightened by the U. S. Press as he was four years ago. He understood the questions perfectly, groped now and then for an English word or phrase but seldom for a reply. Mr. Spear, confined to bed upstairs, sent down a request that the eminent man should pose for photographs beside a bust of Socrates in the parlor...
...fiance to despair by selling all his possessions to buy a library of chivalric romances. He sallies forth, enters a tavern where strolling players are performing. Vastly amused, they dub him knight. He swears fealty to his Dulcinea -a tavern wench. Arousing his trusty Sancho Panza (Robey) from bed, the old knight drags him off on a career of errantry. Dreamy, hollow-eyed, grandiloquent, Don Quixote perpetually fancies he is dealing with giants or magicians. His bewildered but eager squire does his best to help and coddle the old zany. After the Don has attacked a flock of sheep...
...soon as he becomes a lawyer they will have plenty of money. The Mighty Barnum (Twentieth Century) introduces its hero (Wallace Beery) as the proprietor of a Manhattan general store, busily trading lightning rods for three-headed frogs while a friend has delirium tremens in Mrs. Barnum's bed. As soon as Bailey Walsh (Adolphe Menjou) is able to stand up, he and Barnum buy a livery stable with Mrs. Barnum's savings. There, with "George Washington's 169-year-old nurse" as their star attraction, they start The American Museum...