Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate's heart, if not its votes, was with the onetime Secretary of the Treasury as he came on the floor, frail and fatigued. He admitted that he was worn out and needed to go to bed...
Irish leader was Edward Cleary, a "graduate" of Sing Sing. He was found drunk in bed. In his dormitory and in the cosy little study he had fitted up for himself and his staff were three 10-gal. milk cans of home brew, a "deck" of heroin, a refrigerator bulging with contraband provisions which he sold or bartered for services...
Both Rao and Cleary, it soon developed, were animal lovers. Cleary had a police pup chained to his bed. The dog wore a harness on which was graven the name "Screw Hater" ("screw" = guard). The Irishman also had a cote of 100 pigeons in his dormitory. Rao maintained a flock of 200 more on top of the prison storage house. Also his criminal lackeys had built him a little fenced garden, with flowers, benches and a milch goat. Both Cleary and Rao had passes permitting them to roam the island at will...
...medicine, this comedy is compact of witty lines and stale quips, hilarious situations and brummagem tricks. There is the sly, wise grandmother in frumpy clothes (Lucille Watson) who speaks a pure nightclub patois and gets tipsy. There is the joke about flowers with celebrated names planted in the same bed. Some one even gets a chance to remark that Adolf Hitler is "all swelled up with no place to burst." But with adroit acting, shrewd direction, ingratiating sets, the whole comes out a packet of high entertainment...
...haled into a divorce court, tortured for testimony by opposing counsel. By judicial decree he spends eight unhappy months with the mother who has married her well-meaning paramour, returns to his father who is also planning to remarry. When he falls ill, his parents bicker over his bed, discover that neither wants him much, are relieved when the doctor suggests a military school. There Bobby is advised by another divorced boy" to accept the gifts and less & less frequent visits of his parents with equanimity, to "wait...