Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beyond the black outline of the Treasury, the White House gleamed in the night. Speaker Garner lighted a fresh cigar. It was too dark to see the expression in his eyes. Soon he went downstairs to bed. At 11 p. m. when Governor Roosevelt was nominated, the Speaker got up to send him a telegram of congratulation, rolled back to sleep immediately...
...with his good friends King George of England and onetime King Alfonso of Spain. On the day that Ellsworth Vines won the championship, King Manoel's chair was vacant. He had waked up with a sore throat. After breakfast he went to see his physician, was ordered to bed. But not until afternoon did Dom Manoel obey. By then his throat was swelling rapidly, he was choking for breath. While his secretary telephoned frantically for Lord Dawson of Penn, Dom Manoel's diseased glottis continued to swell & swell until it blocked his windpipe, choked him to death...
...Greek Orthodox Church assumes that, when brought to bed, a bride is virgin. If a husband has suspicions he may call a family conclave at which the bride either protests innocence or admits guilt. If the former, the husband may prove the matter beyond all doubt by calling medical examiners. If the charges are substantiated the husband has the right to an annulment, though the church advises him to forgive his wife and live with her. In Chicago last week the marriage machinery of the Greek Orthodox Church ground out an epilog to a primitive tragedy...
Except for the name on the cover there is little to distinguish Eye Opener from Whiz Bang. Most jokes and pictures in the July and August issues are based on: 1) girl walking home from automobile ride; 2) burglar under old maid's bed; 3) husband surprising wife with male visitor; 4) iceman (plumber, repairman) and complaisant housewife...
...dizziness and a bad cold (TIME, June 27). Though refusing to release him from its subpoena, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee finally decided not to quiz him until hearings on stock exchange practices are resumed next autumn (see col. 1). Cineman Fox promptly rose from his sick bed, checked...