Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his back in a cast because of injuries received from falling off a ladder in a well. Major General Smedley Darling" ton Butler left his bed to address a veterans' rally at Norristown, Pa. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, who said he had not milked a cow for 20 years, lost a milking contest in Shenandoah, Iowa to Earl May, operator of radio station KFNF, owned by Henry ("Himself") Field, Republican nominee for Senator. The loser's plea: "The trick is to get a lot of foam in the milk so the pop bottle will fill...
Gentleman kneels at the foot of his bed...
...been crowded by the epidemic (now waning) which visited Philadelphia & vicinity (TIME, Sept. 12). Two of Dr. Stewart's three children-Blair, 3, and Florence. 18 months-caught the disease, are recovering with no observable permanent stigmata. Dr. Stewart, overworked, lost resistance and last week went to bed with infantile paralysis. Probably his only ill effect will be a weak right leg. Puzzling is the apparent immunity of medical men to infectious or contagious diseases. All last year only one physician died of infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, anthrax, parrot fever, or undulant fever. Of 2,952 U. S. doctors...
...young man who chiefly caused it. Charles Ross ("Silent Sandy") Somerville, journeying homewards to London, Ont. with the U. S. amateur trophy, ignored five telegrams from the homefolks asking when he would arrive for a public reception. He slipped home quietly to his mother's apartment, went to bed right after dinner. Said his mother: "You'd think he had just come from the Hunt Club. You'd never know he'd been away...
...plot enters in the person of a beauteous native girl (Maria Alba) who has run away from marriage on a nearby island. She likes Fairbanks, gets into bed with him. He extricates himself, calls her "cute." Meanwhile Fairbanks' returning friends stop at the nearby island that Maria Alba has left, hire the natives to fake a capture and the beginning of a stake-burning, to be interrupted by the friends. The natives come, find the escaped girl, carry out the stake-burning in earnest. But as Fairbanks' homemade shorts get hot, the monkey turns on the radio, the savages flee...