Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy to find a publisher for The Remembrance of Things Past. Andre Gide, who later found in Proust "a lake of delights," was at first unimpressed. One publisher was annoyed at Proust's devoting 50 pages to "how he turns over & over in his bed before getting to sleep." Finally the first volume was published by Grasset at Proust's expense. Critics, except for a few, hardly knew what to say about it. could not make up their minds until the second volume won the Prix Goncourt. From that day on. Proust's reputation, like his ponderous book, slowly gathered...
...skin. Little water, no bathtub, no faucets or sinks, will be needed. Toilets will be dry, a machine converting sewage into methane gas to provide the house's light and power. Air will be conditioned, making bedclothes unnecessary. All machinery will fit into the central duraluminum mast. The bed pneumatic, the closets full of revolving shelves, the walls transparent but windowless, the cooking done by vacuum mazda units, dishwashing and laundry done mechanically in three minutes, all doors opening at the wave of a hand before photoelectric cells, the dymaxion house tries to do everything directly and independently...
...succession, two foxtrots and two tangos. Then they went out on the terrace and down to the beach. They remained out 45 minutes by Princess Jane's wristwatch after which H. R. H. returned to the bar, calling for beer. At this point Princess Jane went home to bed without pausing to say goodnight to her royal guests. Next morning the Widow Kraus swam with the Princes, waved goodbye as they boarded a plane for Corfu where they were received by the ship's company of H. M. S. Queen Elizabeth...
...heavy buyer. Some of Director Schwartz's best efforts have been in raising the tone of the trade. Ten years ago it was not uncommon for a steel mill to receive a carload of scrap "top-dressed" with meaty chunks of good steel that concealed a load of bed steads, old fenders, tin cans, other metals and alloys which would ruin a batch of steel. One dealer foisted off a shipment of pipes filled with sand to increase the weight. All scrap is now graded, and priced accordingly. Highest grade is railroad car axles, standard grade is heavy melting...
...hayfever in the U. S. Pollens from certain trees, grasses and weeds are just as irritating. Calvin Coolidge gets his annual attacks when grass begins to flower. At his last birthday July 4, when he went up to Plymouth, Vt., he was so ill that he went to bed for several days. He has been up & around since. But he would not travel to Washington last week for President Hoover's nomination party...