Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dress ball they had taken over Central City's Teller House, next door to the Opera House, restored its grandeur of 1873 when President Grant stepped into it on silver paving slabs. The presidential suite was last week a museum, complete with President Grant's huge mahogany bed. The ballroom was readied for a fancy dress ball after the play...
...tunnel traffic a new and livelier commodity: steam. Chicago's freight tunnels, which most Chicagoans live and die without ever seeing, have little likeness to the passenger subways of other cities. They lie not just beneath the street but 40 feet below the surface. Driven through clay (bed rock is several hundred feet below the surface in Chicago's Loop) and walled with concrete a foot thick, they are but six feet wide and seven and a half feet high. There are 62 miles of such tunnels, under nearly every street of downtown Chicago. Through them engineers guide...
...PROGRESS OF JULIUS-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Julius Levy was bred in the gutters of a Paris suburb, son of a Jew huckster who choked his buxom wife to death one night when Julius found her in bed with the landlord's son. Julius and his father straggled off to Algiers. There, orphaned, Julius learned to steal, snuggle in the arms of a Negro laundress, consider the English a "race of fools." Presently, accompanied by a 14-year-old prostitute disguised as a boy, Julius was en route to London. In London he followed the success story...
...know that there are four summer school courses which occupy an hour and a half every day, and one that meets at 7.30 every morning? During the war, classes at Harvard began at 8 instead of 9 to get the students in bed earlier, to save light, to save coal...
...only side of the bed that is important is the upper; dirt can be well hidden underneath...