Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week went eight Dartmouth members of Theta Chi. Nine were left behind in the big, white fraternity house. Uneventful as ever was their Saturday night of bridge, radio, talk. Soon after midnight two friends who had dropped in went home. One by one the students drifted upstairs to bed...
...night one of them heard a dull boom from below. He knew what that meant. Someone had banked the furnace fire too heavily and a puff of exploding coal gas had blown open the door. Sleepily he stumbled down cellar, slammed the door shut, went back to bed. He did not notice that a part of the chimney pipe had also been blown...
...Insull's Greek lawyer moaned: "It is impossible to imagine Mr. Insull traveling. He is practically dying as it is." His Greek doctor confined himself to: "Condition aggravated." In other words the Greek Government was ready to let him remain so long as he stayed in bed. But Ambassador MacVeagh wired the State Department that he was sure he could get Insull out of Greece within two weeks...
Seven times since pneumonia laid him low Melvin Traylor collapsed beyond all hope of recovery. Seven times since he took to his bed last month, the Chicago banker rallied to confound his doctors. One morning last week his heart stopped for two minutes. That evening he stirred from coma to whisper: "How tired I am!" At 11 o'clock the doctors called the family. After seven minutes the stout Traylor heart stopped beating for good...
...with space between for wash-tubs. At 51 he was in Switzerland helping to organize the Bank for International Settlements. At 18 he was teaching school for $150 a year, working as a grocer's clerk, joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency. At 27 he was manager, cashier, janitor and night watchman of a bank at Malone, Tex. (pop. 150) where he slept on a cot in the corridor. At 47 he was president of Chicago's second...