Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police pounced on 23 ringleaders in the Radical plot, called it "completely crushed." Smack- the President brushed aside an elaborate public ceremony at which he was to have turned over his powers to the Vice President before leaving Argentina. Since Roca was sick, let him stay in bed. A brief decree, signed without ceremony by General Justo at the last moment, gave bedridden Roca proper power. With bands blaring, banners flying and two regiments escorting him as a guard of honor, President Justo stepped aboard his special train at Buenos Aires and sped out to the seaport...
...Anne of Cleves but she falls in love with the courier he sends to invite her to England. To spite Henry, she makes faces at him when they meet. The king is infuriated when, on their wedding night, she wins most of his pocket money, playing cards in bed...
Tira's manners in this scene are congruous with her past. A honky-tonk dancer whose behavior at all times suggests that she is on her way to bed, she has improved her station in life by performing in a wild animal act and putting her head in a lion's mouth. As an important circus celebrity she continues to make advances to most of the men she meets. When young Kirk (Kent Taylor) kisses the inside of her hand, she rolls her eyes and growls: "You got me!" After ejecting Kirk's fiancee, Tira receives another...
...acrobatic act in which she lifted a 500-lb. weight, supported three 150-lb. male assistants. She played with Ed Wynn in Sometime, shimmied in Shubert revues, made her name on the Manhattan stage with Diamond Lil, in which she was a genial prostitute. The enormous swan-shaped bed which appeared on the stage in Diamond Lil came from Mae West's home, once belonged to Diamond Jim Brady...
...canon of Notre Dame, invited Abelard to share his house and tutor his beautiful niece Heloise, Abelard was living the unconsciously uncomfortable life of a natural bachelor. Under Fulbert's roof he quickly caught fire from Heloise's adoration. One night the old man found them in bed together...