Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London, Nov. 25--George Bernard Shaw, 78, playwright, was recovering today from a heart attack which at first was believed serious. His physicians, however, said that while the grey-boarded Irish humorist was in bed, his condition was not serious...
...have just read your report on convalescing Philippine Leader Manuel Quezon in a Johns Hopkins Hospital bed, and his quandary as to which physician to obey when he wanted a drink [TIME, Nov. 12]. Señor Quezon had no qualms about what kind of food he wanted when well enough to eat. He consulted no doctor but his own instinct, and ordered his private cook to prepare for him the Spanish puchero-that pot which holds life's essentials for rich and poor alike, emblematic of the national well-being of a healthy people. A cabalistic piece...
...turkey hash with beaten biscuits, hominy and eggs scrambled with browned cornmeal. The President was then taken outside for a view of the Jackson tomb. He also cocked an appreciative eye at the fine old stone springhouse, pouring its sparkling waters across the world's most abundant mint bed...
...least significant in point of seniority, is far from it. In 1913 in Manhattan and The Bronx, the Fusion candidate for the Supreme Court of New York was an able young lawyer named Benjamin Nathan Cardozo. Early returns showed him running behind his ticket and he went to bed believing himself beaten. He awoke in the morning to find that: "My name led all the rest when the returns from The Bronx came in. Our good Italian citizens took my name for one of their...
...garrulous Irish nurse, was in how to mix a cocktail. She might also, suggested a pert French maid, have picked up some of Mrs. Vanderbilt's "very dirty" picture books. The nurse said she and Mrs. Morgan had peeked on Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg lying on a bed with Mrs. Vanderbilt. The maid said she had seen Mrs. Vanderbilt and the Marchioness of Milford Haven doing "something very funny." At that, Justice Carew was so shocked that he slammed closed the doors of his courtroom to Press and public...