Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ''Springville," is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free...
...Harold F. Davidson had a right and duty to rescue maidens from a life of sin, but that in the process he should not have: "Systematically misbehaved himself - "Kissed and hugged Barbara Harris in a Chinese restaurant in Bloomsbury "Permitted 17-year-old Barbara Harris to sleep in his bed - "Been guilty of immoral conduct with Rose Ellis, 30, over a period of ten years - "Paid room rent for a dozen girls with whom he had unepiscopal relations - †"Been barred from two London restaurants for accosting waitresses - "Embraced Betty Beach, an actress, while she was clad only...
...life. "Born to be educated," as his family said, Ralph Waldo Emerson had his lessons well under way by the time he was 8 (1811) when his father William was called from his pastorate at the First Church of Boston into the grave, consoled on his death bed by Dr. Frothingham's assurance that "at least he had not outlived his teeth." Ralph and his four brothers did their poor mother's chores, pastured the cows on Boston Common. But it was during summer visits in Concord, at Step-Grandfather Ripley's manse, that New England Nature smiled...
From an entertainment at once informal and highly artificial, Chevalier's songs spring spontaneously. Even Jeannette MacDonald's trademark scene, the one in which she shows her underclothes, is bearable. Some Lubitsch touches: a small light going on & off at the head of a bed which contains Chevalier and MacDonald ; Chevalier trying to convince a policeman that the lady with whom he has been entwined on a park bench is his wife...
...shaped after an old Tudor barn in Surrey which Mrs. Jeffers once admired. In the one-room attic the family sleep; downstairs they live their quiet family life. They have no telephone, no electric lights, no servants, but they entertain a few friends now & then. Poet Jeffers chose the bed downstairs by the sea-window for a good deathbed . . . when the patient daemon behind the screen of sea-rock and sky thumps with his staff, and calls thrice: "Come Jeffers...