Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts, future historians are likely to pluck out and re-examine as the most authentic and complete summation of the Democratic case last week's radio speech by Virginia's testy little Senator Carter Glass. The 74-year-old Lynchburg publisher got out of a sick bed to answer President Hoover's stump speeches. Senator Glass is a political snapping turtle but no Republican has dared call the "Father of the Federal Reserve" a "wild...
...best men to proceed at once to New York and take up their duty of guarding the person of the 32nd President. Returning from the Biltmore to his town house at No. 49 E. 65th St., Franklin Delano Roosevelt ate some ham & eggs and went to bed. "I have work to do on the State Budget," was his parting word to the ever-present Press. "That will keep me busy for the next few days. I'm not President yet." The election of this Roosevelt made a third "pair" of Presidents-the two Adamses, who were father...
Arthur Lumley, 78, oldtime (1878-88) editor of The Police Gazette and manager of prizefighters (Sullivan, Fitzsimmons the original Jack Dempsey), fell down the steps in a Brooklyn subway station suffered a broken arm, many a bruise. In bed he reminisced. Of the late great Editor Charles Anderson Dana: "And who do you think he brought along with him? Roscoe Conklin, the Senator. They sat up all night at that cockfight." Of John L. Sullivan: "I made John L. sports editor of my sheet [The Illustrated News']. It was handy . . . whenever I wanted to roast anyone I would...
...proposed marriage to him; Stella, whom he loved; Ireland, which he admired; himself, whom he despised. The poetic Swift confessional is interesting, intelligible to none except the eager student. The charlatan medium dismisses her congregation, counts her money, prepares to retire. But as she makes her way to bed, Swift's spirit returns, keeps on talking even through her uncomprehending yawns...
Hence there appeared on the Harvard campus in March, 1923, a sawed-off youth wearing a monocle, top hat, morning coat, and sponge-bag trousers. He was temporarily put up at the Harvard Union in a bed in which President Roosevelt once had slept. Later he stopped for a time at the Phoenix Club. Specialists in the Prince's Harvard career say that he brushed aside the matter of entrance requirements by describing to President Lowell, in a personal interview, how his papers had been destroyed when the Rods burned the Winter Palace. Mike was enrolled as a student...