Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snowy-crested French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour was at that moment in Geneva on League of Nations business, but Accuser Henriot got only so far as the Chamber lobby when he was set upon by Minister of Education de Monzie fairly boiling to avenge his honor. Fresh from bed, rheumatic M. de Monzie managed to leap upon the back of M. Henriot and they went down clawing as a dozen deputies of Left and Right pitched into a clothes-tearing tussle, pulled each-other's neckties, knocked off eyeglasses and compared each other at the top of their...
Said Jonker next day: "I entrust everything of value to my wife. That night we bound the diamond in a cloth and tied it around my wife's neck. I saw her to bed after carefully locking and barring all the windows and doors except the front door. There my two sons, myself and two friends kept guard with loaded revolvers until dawn. Then I handed the diamond for safekeeping to the manager of the Premier Diamond Mine." Hastily last week Prospector Jonker sold his precious find to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, board chairman of South Africa's Diamond...
Easy to Love (Warner Bros.). The married estate of Carol (Genevieve Tobin) and John (Adolphe Menjou) is accurately outlined when she remarks: "First a double bed. then twin beds, now separate rooms." When Carol discovers her husband is consorting with her best friend Charlotte (Mary Astor), she acquires a nominal friend of her own (Ed ward Everett Horton). Carol's aimless attempts to get her husband back permit all four characters to engage in some wan didoes but in the end it takes Carol's daughter (Patricia Ellis) to bring her parents together. Shots for admirers of blank...
...order of the day. Though Author Talbot's Gentlemen-The Regiment! contains one or two scenes that certainly would not have amused Her Britannic Majesty, its general tone is dashingly Victorian. In mid-19th Century, when well-bred wives called their husbands "Mr." even in bed, the English county town of Harwick centred proudly in its two famed infantry regiments, one known as "The Fathers." Both were family affairs: one was officered mainly by the plodding Chappells, the other by their livelier cousins, the St. Quentyns. Alastair Chappell, the last of his line, was a little too sensitive...
...garden gapes at two scrawny rosebushes, with their roots close together, their stems intertwined, and their single blossoms cheek by jowl. To her gardener the dowager remarks: "I guess we shouldn't have planted the Duchess of Marlborough and the Reverend H. Robertson-Page in the same bed...