Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roll of flame, set nine buildings alight. Perilous live electric wires fell from their poles into the confusion. Squads of firemen had first to clear the streets of scorched and unconscious victims. In one house they found the charred bodies of Mr. & Mrs. George Dale side by side in bed. Neighbors said afterwards that Dale was bedridden with cancer and that his wife, knowing he could not escape, must have stayed by him until both were burned...
...course, cannot bear babies despite the romantic notions called couvade, whereby the father writhes in bed when the mother goes through labor. But men may harbor the elements of muscle, skin, hair, cartilage and organs which go to make up a baby. The monstrosity's favorite nest is a testicle. In itself the teratoma is not dangerous. But its parts, being embryonic in nature, may at any provocation burst into a rage of growth. Then a man has a wild cancer sending its buds throughout his system and early recognition of the monstrosity, its prompt abortion...
...there off & on ever since, mostly in Villefranche or Paris. He is unmarried, slender, boyish-looking, with a long, smooth face, pointed, lobeless ears. He is fond of comic strips. Other books: The Apple of the Eye, Natives of the Rock, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, Fear & Trembling (TIME...
...suit, the color of his tie. When the afternoon session was over Mr. Morgan would return to the Carlton Hotel, opposite the White House, where he and his friends were paying $2,000 per day for five floors. &3134; There he would dress, dine quietly, go early to bed. He made no off-stage appearances about Washington in the evening. In the committee room Senators found him an easy, pleasant gentleman who could give them cigars without mak-ing them feel under obligation to him. His partners' testimony he followed as closely as if he were hearing things about...
With a shrug of resignation the dispatcher at Le Bourget airdrome switched off the floodlights which had blazed through the night. From Tempelhof weary newsmen dragged themselves off to bed. At Croydon the telephone operator made a last effort to raise remote stations, silent because of Whitsunday. At Floyd Bennett Field, New York, pessimism deepened to despair. It was 40 hours since Jimmie Mattern had rocketed off the mile-long concrete runway, and there was no word of his landing. His fuel must have run out at least ten hours...