Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flexible Instruments. The German press censor passed cables saying that Nazis in Potempa who took an unresisting Communist from his bed last August and stamped upon him until he died were last week pardoned, set free. Dispatches also passed the censor in which Jews were described as being commonly beaten by Nazis with an instrument consisting of a steel spring tipped by a small lead ball. The effect: maximum flesh bruises without actually breaking a bone...
...Although I was under prison regime the conditions seemed to me better than those I witnessed once on a visit to Dartmoor. The cell to which I was taken . . . was really a moderately sized room, with table and bed but no chair...
That was not all. At 3 a. m. a carpenter had gotten out of bed and, as is his habit, began the day reading aloud from the Bible. This day he began at the beginning of the Old Testament, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." After he had finished, by prearrangement another North Presbyterian parishioner elsewhere took up the reading. Throughout the day, a businessman on a trolley, a stenographer in the street, a group of old ladies in a home, at scheduled times took up 130 separate stints of enunciating psalms, proverbs, laws, lists...
...them appointed by the U. S. Attorney, examined Mr. Harriman. "Coronary thrombosis," they said, "a very precarious condition." But the warrant was read to the patient, a U. S. Commissioner appeared, and Mr. Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain pen, he signed a $25,000 bail bond. "Is that all?" he demanded peremptorily. "Then good evening, gentlemen," and sank back weakly on his pillow...
...ever suffered the simultaneous ministrations of Jimmy Walker and Big Bill Thompson. Author Sayre's pleasing idea is to imagine a city that did. Mayor of Greater Malta, a municipality strongly resembling Greater New York, is John Norris ("Jolly John") Holtsapple, who is first seen rising from his bed of alcoholic pain to go down the Bay and welcome Waldo, champion wrestling bear. Jolly John's party has the city in its bag but only a slim margin of control on the Board of Aldermen, whose president, Harrie Satchells, is after the mayoralty. The campaign is a humdinger...