Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little room in Queens, New York, 12-year-old Jane Ruby lay ill of pneumonia. Near her bed four newborn spitz puppies squirmed in a box. Outside, several laborers were repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane and long white mustache seemed to betoken a distinguished past. In & out of the Ruby abode pranced a black spitz bitch named Fluffy, raising her family, amusing the sick girl, bringing companionship into the life of old Laborer Smith. Then one day last week Covetousness reared its ugly head...
Higher went Jane Ruby's fever. Weaker grew the puppies' whines. Mrs. Ruby was desperate, the doctor at the end of his resources. Suddenly the door flew open. In walked Horace Holden with Fluffy. "Yelp!" yelped Fluffy, bounding to the bed. Jane Ruby stretched out her arms, her fever subsided, she slept. Four spitz puppies had a hearty meal. Embarrassed at the praise showered upon him, the golden-hearted detective backed out, took lonesome old Lawrence Smith to jail...
...London the Government of His Majesty King George announced that plans to evacuate every British subject from Shanghai's International Settlement were ready. A British ship loaded with extra munitions steamed Chinaward. In swank Shanghai hotels the white women were getting scared at last, refused to go to bed, sat in the lobbies hour after hour. To Washington cabled Admiral M. M. Taylor, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet: "The Japanese have been forced to slow down their advance because of stern Chinese opposition...
...firm was Son Isidore, then in short pants. When Isidore grew into long pants and had a few dollars in their pockets he bought a steerage ticket for England and slipped away to look for cannibals. Eventually he reached Johannesburg, spent several years grubbing for his board & bed. Finally he hit upon the bright idea of selling land on the installment plan, formed African Realty Trust, Ltd., sold suburban sites which later became parts of cities. To get the sites occupied he imported portable houses, opened a mortgage & loan office. To get his tenants to their homes he started...
...chair with horizontal back slats. She sketched that kind of chair back. But it did not seem correct. She made another picture with the chair slats vertical (see cut), felt better. Mr. Irwin had drawn his chair while looking through the vertical bars which composed the foot of his bed...