Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most potent reason for taking the course however, is the brilliant lecturing of Professor Parker. The lectures are interesting from seven minutes after nine until ten; at no time does one wish he were still slumbering peacefully in his bed, nor is he tempted to slumber in his seat. Many non-concentrators have called him the best lecturer in College; certainly one must go far to find anyone so genuinely amusing and at the same time informative...
...President Roosevelt had some one else picked for Italy. Mayor Curley went back to Boston, took to his bed with a cold. The President last week announced his appointment as Ambassador to Poland. Two days later Mayor Curley leaped out of bed, sped to Washington and with a rhetorical flourish that sounded almost sarcastic told the President he was "eternally grateful" for the offer of the Warsaw post but he would have to decline it. His reason: "The clear call of duty . . . that I remain in America [and Boston] . . . cannot be disregarded...
...element has an important viewpoint; we must address ourselves particularly to it. ... It is vital that young, good-looking and active speakers be sent to the United States instead of unhealthy, decrepit, tired, feverish, wornout, coughing and trembling ancients bound into frock coats. These have to be put to bed upon their arrival with hot water bottles at their feet, have to be awakened just in time for a conference, and when rushed to a station thousands of precautions have to be taken. That is why France is pictured as a tired, worn-out country...
...Coughlin's small bungalow in the Detroit suburbs, late one night last week, were himself, his assistant and a Franciscan monk. Father Coughlin's bedroom is on the ground floor; the others above. At 3 a. m. came a sharp explosion. Father Coughlin was shaken out of bed, he said. Neighbors awoke, called police. Father Coughlin called his good friend Mayor Frank Murphy. Streets were roped off, the house surrounded by guards. In the basement, police found remains of a crude, small black-powder bomb. The explosion had wrecked a steam-pipe, broken windows, spattered canned goods about...
...bedroom and took from Mrs. Cosden's dressing table her diamond bracelet, black pearl ring, pink pearl ring, and pigeon blood rubies (aggregate value: $100,000), slipped into a nearby room and took $42,000 worth of jewels lying on a tray near Lady Mountbatten's bed...