Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President stayed quietly in his upstairs study, talking over the events of his biggest day with his old crony-Secretary Louis Howe. At 10:30 p.m. he stood up. yawned, went peacefully to bed...
...sudden stab of pain in his abdomen, thought it was indigestion. He took some soda, paced about the hotel corridors with his wife. Later that night a doctor found the Senator's blood pressure was 182, with symptoms of angina pectoris. Advised to stay over and go to bed, Mr. Walsh replied that he had to get on to Washington for the inaugural. Next day he and his wife started north in a drawing room on Atlantic Coast Line's train...
...took his fever. It was normal. I fixed the Senator some orange juice. I put it in bathroom to keep it from spilling. He was like a baby-wanted to go sleep. He turned over in bed once. I tuck him in. I went to sleep. I knew nothing-then the light started in the window. I look in his bed. He is not there. I thought he was in bathroom and call like this, Who-ooo-ooo Tom! Whoooo, Tom! He did not answer. I jump out of my bed. When I did I saw something on the floor...
...coolie level. In many a sweatshop the "U. S. standard of living," which the textile tariff is supposed to protect, had declined to a point where workers could subsist only with the help of charity. Girls were sleeping in subways because they could not earn the price of a bed. Hospitals were filling with women who had worked themselves into a state of collapse for a pittance...
...closed not for just a month, but always. From this we might draw a reaffirmation of the proverb "there's a time and place for everything." Primitive reportorial humor is just as acceptable in a newspaper play as hard swearing was in the dugout in "What Price Glory," as bed-room skits in a musical comedy, or scenes from a Turkish bath in Scollay Square; but each in its own place...