Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wirt is on his way to Washington to tell all he knows about the Bright Young Men and their nefarious plans regarding Franklin D. "Kerensky" Roosevelt. Times change. It is so short a time ago that Secretary Kellogg was peeking nervously under his official bed every night looking for Reds, While, the whole Administration shuddered. Now the citizenry is looking under the beds and shuddering to find a Red Administration there...
Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...
...house at Lynchburg, Va. one morning last week. The sputtering grease caught fire, sent a blaze up to the ceiling. Rasch hurried the night watchman to a room containing fire extinguishers but it was locked. Overhead 100 sleeping men, wards of the Federal Transient Relief Bureau, leaped out of bed, ran for the windows. No fire escapes. They rushed to the back of the building. A wall of flame. Some jumped in terror from upper windows. Others swung in their underwear from ice-covered telephone wires. In the smouldering ashes firemen found 14 charred bodies-seven black, seven white. Three...
...favorite armchair the room would burst into light. Plump Lady Llangattock sat down so hard she squashed the switch, blew out a fuse. Partner Frederick Henry Royce, struggling against youthful poverty, had no time for pranks. A modest builder of electrical cranes in Manchester, he had just gone to bed in a cheap London hotel one night in 1903 when Mr. Rolls burst in and introduced himself as a salesman of French cars. Each was passionately fond of engineering, each dreamed of building the finest car in the world. Then & there began a famed partnership which lasted until 1910 when...
...they mostly under three years old, die of measles. Its chief danger lies in the fact that pneumonia may complicate it; tuberculosis, Bright's disease, heart disease, or serious eye trouble may follow. Last week health authorities were warning parents not to let their children out of bed too soon. In a week or so the pimply rash which appears on the third or fourth day is almost gone and the small patient wants to be up and at play. But that is the dangerous time...