Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tired of trying to find romance in the Romance Languages, a friend of ours left his bed and board in Eliot House last year and spent the school year in Paris, studying these languages at the Sorbonne. He took four stiff courses, worked very hard, and returned with a report card of a B, two C's, and a D. On registration day he made a triumphal entry into the Dean's office to be welcomed home. But Mr. Hanford produced a musty statute about lowering the grades of exchange students. The year at the Sorbonne, hard work...
...Manhattan, police went to the home of Negro John Mitchell, chicken thief, found him in bed with 40 dead chickens...
...fire companies were not only a potent political force, like those of New York, but the equivalent of the city's swankest clubs. Lily soon was as ardent a vamp as ever answered a midnight alarm or kept his rubber boots at the head of the bed. She was married about this time to Howard Coit (no relation to Cleveland's or Buffalo's Coits), then the leather-lunged Caller of the old Mining Exchange, but matrimony could not keep Lily out of the fire house. She answered every alarm, smoked, drank and played poker with...
Governor Lehman of New York took to his bed with a sharp pain in his side late last week-sub-acute appendicitis-but not before he had helped rid his State of an acute pain in the pocket book. All week in his Manhattan apartment he had continued conferences between the city's bankers, officials of the New York Stock Exchange and prognathous Mayor John Patrick O'Brien. The last, counseled by orchid-wearing old Samuel Untermyer, persisted stubbornly in his proposal to pile a city tax on top of the Federal and State taxes on stock transfers...
Mumps broke out among Their Majesties' sturdy Highland retainers at Balmoral Castle last week, caused Queen Mary to postpone abruptly the annual Royal Scottish Servants' Ball. Knowing how dangerous mumps can be to a full grown male, Her Majesty ordered all mumpsful Scottish gillies tucked promptly into bed...