Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years before Ludwig van Beethoven shook his great fist at the thunder & lightning raging outside his window and fell back dead on his bed, his Ninth (last) Symphony was given its first performance in Vienna. Beethoven, a homely, dumpy, shaggy-headed little figure, stood in the orchestra, eyes fixed on his score, awkwardly beating time. He was not the official conductor. The players had been instructed to pay him no attention. He was so deaf by that time that he could hear nothing of the great, surging music called for by the pinny, almost illegible little notes...
...night, all morning and all afternoon Howard Edwards continued to walk and ride. As soon as he grew used to walking he was given a ride; as soon as he made himself comfortable in the chair he was pulled to his feet. As dusk fell he was put to bed, shaken and bothered into wakefulness. Long after midnight Dr. Snavely decided that he had worked off the effect of the veronal, might sleep without danger of never waking. But that night, again, Howard Edwards could not sleep well...
...bears sold against foolish bidding or covered when there was foolish selling, he said, there would be "terrific swings" in the market. "The use of dummy names has advantages and disadvantages. If word got round that some bad actor was selling short, the market might fall out of bed." He said that pushing a stock up is as bad as pushing it down -"especially if it's done just at the close of day's market. The fellow out on Keokuk tells his brother over a stein of beer: 'See what Telephone or Steel did?' Next...
...that he become a literary man. Desperately he begins to twiddle with pen & ink, and on the strength of this activity his aunt palms him off as a literary genius on Julia. But Julia soon discovers that Oswald's only genius is to loaf, even in the marriage bed. She takes some lovers on the sly. Oswald discovers her infidelity, goes to complain to his aunt. All he gets from her is hark-from-the-tomb again, for telling on his wife. She assures poor Oswald that some men are born to be cuckolds and that he is eminently...
...husband once again. Actress Gish sets out to ensnare Zeigen, Actor Hull tries to charm a kitchen maid (porcelain-faced Jean Arthur of the films). Neither has much success at first. Zeigen, it turns out, is a man of frugal habits. He is ready for an onion sandwich and bed. The kitchen maid does not think Actor Hull "very interesting." However, next morning, Zeigen gets and willingly takes the spousal wrath, settles with a check and departs with the irate husband. That leaves the lovers alone again, but not very blissful. In spite of the maid's initial unwillingness...