Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the luxurious Executive Mansion Governor Murray wears his hat all the time. He greets all women visitors as "Sister." He does nothing for fun, except to sprawl out on a bed or couch where he likes to give interviews. Mrs. Murray, a quiet dark woman, keeps much in the background, paints oil portraits of her Indian ancestors, has a social secretary, goes to a few bridge parties. She seldom accompanies her husband around the State or nation on his speaking trips. She did go to California with him last year and then her friends gave her a "bridal shower...
...André Tardieu, was in Paris, hastily summoned by the French Cabinet crisis. The Chief German Delegate, Heinrich Brüning, was in Berlin; and the Chief U. S. Delegate, Henry Lewis Stimson, was in Washington. The acting Chief U. S. Delegate, Hugh Simons Gibson, was not only in bed with a bad cold three days of last week in Geneva but apparently communicated this affliction to Captain Kent Churchill Melhorn, U. S. N., the U. S. Delegation's staff physician. Several other U. S. delegates were in bed with colds and Swiss doctors were hastily summoned...
...Kashmir at the foot of the Himalayas, the Moslem population celebrated the end of Ramadan by staging a joyous Hindu hunt. Seventy-five houses were pillaged and burned. Crowds rioted up and down the bed of the Jhelum River and through the streets of Dharmsi. Fifteen Hindus were killed, eight Moslems.* Moslems are fiercely proud that in the whole world there are 209,020,000 Moslems compared to 206,900,000 Protestants. Moslems agree with Protestants that God created the world in six days, created a garden of paradise and placed therein the man whom God called "Adam...
...sisters Hepzibah & Yaltah. He is good at mathematics and history. He knows five languages: Hebrew, which he spoke before English, French, German, Italian. He has been kept out of doors so that he could learn to swim and play tennis. Even now he goes to bed at 8:30, practices only three hours...
...that evening giving his blood (six quarts in all) to anemic natives, Dr. Rhoads lost his temper. To work off his anger he wrote a personal letter which included the above quotation. That made him feel better. So he threw the note among his waste papers and went to bed...