Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chasing." She dies in an accident. He dies in the War. The old Hacketts add their grandchild to the act, watch him grow up into a Hollywood juvenile. When he misbehaves instead of going to the studio, old Ted Hackett pulls himself out of a lady's bed, packs him off to the lot, dies com- fortably while watching him do an honest buck & wing in the family tradition...
Since that grim March day in 1932 when a certain Swede lay down on his bed at No. 5 Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III, Paris and put a bullet through his heart, there has been little but grim news for holders of Kreuger & Toll securities. Last week some of them had a new shock: Manhattan's Marine Midland Trust Co., successor trustee of Kreuger & Toll secured debenture 55, announced that on Sept. 1 it would distribute $25 to each holder of a $1,000 debenture...
...rapidly, joyously, riotously Havana's streets became full. With no soldiers to stop them this time, a swelling mob burst into the Palace, smashing, ransacking, pillaging "I've got Machado's sheets!" screamed a negress. Other mobsters tore the mosquito netting from the President's bed. Smarter thieves stole silverware and fine porcelain. The Presidential water filter attracted one patriot who wheeled it drunkenly away. Others threw avocados and oranges at tapestries and paintings. The sidewalks outside were littered ankle-deep with debris hurled from the windows...
...Mother Church, governed only by State law. Such institutions are scattered over the U. S. and England. To one of them, Ten Acres near Princeton, N. J., last June was taken Charles E. Berton, 20, his neck fractured in a diving accident (TIME, July 3). He was put to bed, given whatever liquid nourishment he could swallow. The rest was left to God and prayer. In 24 hours Charles Berton was dead...
...power, collecting modern and antique musical instruments and practicing golf, which, because of his crippled arm. he plays with one hand. For one brief interlude last year he returned to the spotlight when the U. S. Senate Banking & Currency Committee summoned him to Washington. There he promptly ducked into bed. Physicians bickered for days as to whether he was really sick or not. and Mr. Fox never testified. The Committee was puzzled by his income tax return in which he had reported a $3,000,000 loss in Fox stock. Fox Theatres Corp. had also deducted the same loss from...