Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night the body of Calvin Coolidge lay on its own bed in its own room. Outside the window a half moon played tricks with night mists rising from the Mount Tom Meadows. Beyond the mist and the moonlight a people mourned the loss of its greatest private citizen, its only ex-President. . . . Smith College girls, just back from holidays, went to the Calvin Theatre as usual, saw Under-Cover Man on the screen. Northampton's Mayor Bliss announced that the city's merchants would draw their shades but keep their doors open during the funeral. Said...
Unhappily, on Christmas Eve, Press-agent Lynch pursued his alcoholic researches to the point of inebriation. Mrs. Brucer said she discovered his condition, put him to bed, administered hot coffee until very late...
Into a University of Oklahoma fraternity house, one midnight three weeks ago, strode six burly students in black robes with black hoods bearing the letters D.D.M.C. They aroused an 18-year-old sophomore. "Come with us, Bill Stephens," intoned a leader darkly. Student Stephens stumbled from his bed. Outside it was 19° Fahrenheit. In his pajamas he was escorted to a field three miles from the University town of Norman. There the black-robes lashed Student Stephens ten times across the back with a three-quarter-inch rope. Then they gave him an overcoat, a pair of boots, told...
...Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse in her arm lying on the dirty sheet is one of the stages of a mystery. Look once more and you can see how beautiful she is. Poor woman, let her sleep...
...Mahatma received the news last week in bed where he has been suffering with a torn ligament from an automobile accident in July. He was not surprised...