Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because he refused to believe that inflation was a cureall. Even conservative members of the Administration were recommending a quick burst of paper money as the only practical way of silencing the inflationary clamor. "'I am unexcited and intend to remain so," President Roosevelt, up from a sick bed, told callers who asked him what he proposed to do about the currency. But by the end of the week he had begun to act. The President received a delegation of southern Congressmen and planters whose demand for 20? cotton had been shunted about Washington for days. They got into...
...Finally we drove into a garage. . . . They said we had arrived. They took me into the house. . . . My ears were stuffed with cotton and I still was blindfolded but I was not handcuffed. ... I slept on the bed, chained to it. I was released every morning. During the day I lay on the floor guarded and blindfolded...
...much reading in bed?" asks the suave detective...
...wolf came, a frightful shaggy fellow with dripping chops and a chest as big as a barrel. He huffed & he puffed & he blew down the houses of sticks and straws, sent the foolish piglets scuttling to the wise piglet's house where they hid under a bed, yet like professional pluggers kept repeating their song until audiences knew it by heart...
...story that Mrs. Roosevelt told in Washington one night last week. Addressing a banquet of Community Chest leaders at the Mayflower Hotel she declared: "I thought of a woman I had seen just after her child died. The child had died because it slept in a cold, wet bed. It had had to sleep in that bed because the family had been evicted from its home. The mother told the sheriff that her child was sick. He said to her: "I'm not here to nurse your god-damned kids.' " That morning on the White House lawn...