Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Someone asked him what the Philippine reaction would be. "How can I tell?" complained the islands' chief politico. "I have not been out of bed. But I know the reaction of the Legislature. If it were put up to them today the bill would be overwhelmingly rejected. Nevertheless I am unwilling to do this. I want them to consult their constituencies and take the issues directly to the people. But if sympathizers continue making speeches and campaigning for acceptance of the act members of the Legislature . . . may force a final decision...
...because his social position was inferior to hers refused to marry him until the Presidency was within his grasp. On Feb. 1 she will move their family into the Presidential Palace, the reception room of which is furnished with a score of wicker chairs and a four-poster bed...
...expanded their Order of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd establishing 110 houses throughout the world to save fallen women. Sister Mary Magdalen had prayed that she might live to see Mother Mary beatified. Now, suddenly, she felt a flow of strength, arose from her bed, flexed her arms, walked briskly about. A small child in an adjoining bed jumped out of the window at the sight. Five doctors came to attest the cure, among them two Jews who swore to it on the gold Testament...
Island of Lost Souls is worth seeing particularly for the moments in which Dr. Moreau twitches quietly with pleasure as he allows himself to think what he will cause to happen to the castaway's fiancée when she goes to bed. In Hollywood's current cycle of horror pictures, this one deserves to be rated as much more atrocious than The Mummy (TIME, Jan. 16), a shade less discomforting than last year's Freaks...
...believer in provoking Britain is Opposition Leader William T. Cosgrave who had been Free State President for ten consecutive years when he was forced out by Mr. de Valera's close victory in the election last winter (TIME, Feb. 29). Routed out of bed at 1 a. m. by reporters who told him that the President had just dissolved the Dail, Mr. Cosgrave snorted, "I'll have nothing to say until the morning...