Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor & Mrs. Godfrey J. Ott of McGuffey, Ohio were tossed out of bed at 3 o'clock one morning last week when a dynamite bomb ripped off the south side of their bungalow. The explosion also broke practically every window in town and rudely awakened most of the 710 other residents of McGuffey...
Strong objections such as Ed Howe's were certainly necessary to make bedfellows of the founders of ALL, and no commonplace, ready-made bed would hold them. The nature of ALL, as its president Jouett Shouse announced it, was to parallel the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment: to take a definite stand on particular issues, to take no direct part in elections, to organize and represent before Congress the interests of homeowners, farmers, labor, savings depositors, bondholders and stockholders...
...objections. None whatever, the President had replied; the League's aims could be subscribed to by every good citizen. But when newshawks walked into his press conference, after ALL had appeared in headlines, Franklin Roosevelt was roaring with laughter. He told how that morning, while he sat in bed looking over the newspapers, he had seen that Wall Street was reported to regard the League as "the answer to a prayer" and he had laughed for ten minutes...
When hoarse ecstatic Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl goes to his bed at night, one of the things that sets his large ears tingling is the thought that it was due to his persistent efforts that the sharp-eyed wife of Novelist Sinclair Lewis was given a personal interview by the still unrecognized Adolf Hitler in 1931. The thin booklet that resulted from that interview has made Brownshirts see red ever since...
...between men and women. When he was 15 he joined a training ship. There he heard plenty about sex but never could quite figure it all out. One night he mustered up courage, went to a prostitute. She was so old and repulsive she frightened him. From under the bed he saw a child's foot protruding. He tried to escape but the woman held him. Harry had never been outside New York but was daft about Indians. Once he bought an Indian tepee, pitched it on an apartment roof where he and his little daughter spent long evenings...