Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steward's books further reveal that Bridgen had charges against him for: "commones and sizinges," which was board together with food and drink ordered from the buttery: "tuition"; 'study-rente and beed," or room and bed "for and candell"; wood; and for bringing corn from Charlestown." On he other side of the ledgers, Bridgen vas credited with such things as "sillier," "wheatt," "malte," "Indian" or born and "a bush of parsnips...
...character from Cervantes is illiterate Juan March, "richest man in Spain." He rolled up to the yellow stucco Rock Hotel at Gibraltar last week with his jailer and a carload of friends, thumbed his nose at the Government of Spain and went to bed. Sallow Castilians slapped their thighs and swore that Por Dios, Juan had done it again...
...husband, from whom she has been growing apart, when he was younger. The association grows stronger. When Martin, appearing with milk on his mouth, solemnly reminds her that it is a sign someone will kiss him before morning, Phyllis volunteers. "Sometime later," begs Martin, "when you tuck me in bed.'' Those who know their Morley will recall that this tryst is forestalled by the fatal accident to Phyllis' children and by the importunities of Joyce, who has not grown up either and who persuades Martin to go away before something dreadful happens. James Bell, who sent shivers...
Gossips said that President Roosevelt was suffering from sinus trouble, but the President described the ailment which confined him to his four-poster bed for two days last week as "sniffles." Attired in striped flannel pajamas and an old white sweater, the President played with his many varieties of U. S. stamps and his three varieties of U. S. dollars: world, R.F.C.-gold and commodity-value...
...gawpers got inside the Carnera house, a two-story structure filled with oversized modernistic furniture. The living room is frescoed with portraits of famed prizefighters. The princely guest room contains a double-size reinforced iron bed for Primo. In the adjoining bathroom is his own tub, made by welding two ordinary tubs together. An electric icebox and electric oven are in the kitchen where leathery Mama Giobanna Carnera last week was sweating heroically over enormous meals for her son and his suite...