Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertaining a person as you would hope to meet. He drank too much, slept too little, made ardent love to his best friend's wife. That was before he hired wide-eyed Miss Smith (Helen Chandler) for his secretary. After that he quit tippling, quit gambling, went to bed early and infinitely bored everyone he knew. Finally he was reclaimed, but not before it developed that Miss Smith had shot her French husband?"poor dear"?because he simply could not break himself of the habit of bringing not one but two of his mistresses home...
...paper Valdosta Times last week. I have been an interested reader of TIME several months, so decided to report this longest dry time which the oldest or middle-aged inhabitants can remember experiencing in this locality. The river Withlacooche is so near dry, hogs walk in centre of river bed just knee deep. The water is generally 15 ft. or 20 ft. deep when of normal depth. TIME is very wonderful...
Abruptly in the middle of the night the guns of San Salvador's Fort La Artilleria began blazing away at the handsome colonnaded Presidential Palace. Officers of Fort El Sapote on the other side of the city, unaware of the revolution, tumbled out of bed to return the fire, but soon a messenger broke through with the big news. Then El Sapote too blazed away at the Palace. Policemen with their pay in their pockets bravely tried to defend the chief of state, as did a few loyal troops. Whether it was true or not, a rumor circulated that...
...course is a rising line." Since his student days at Yale he had believed the beginning of man's upward course was in Egypt. The results of his diggings have given him abundant evidence with which to support this thesis, now generally accepted. Along the dry bed of the oldtime First Nile his Prehistoric Survey has found stone implements, first evidence of the appearance of man in Egypt, possibly a million years ago. Before that, Paleolithic man lived in the well-watered area that is now the Sahara Desert. When that region dried up (in the middle...
...Home along with a bit of publicity, Father Flanagan broadcasts his boys' band, gets celebrities to visit the institution, among them: Tom Mix,* Admiral Byrd, Paul Whiteman, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Will Rogers. With a fanfare from the local Press, Father Flanagan got up from his sick bed fortnight ago and set out for Seattle to plead with Governor Roland Hartley for Herbert Niccolls' custody. Said Father Flanagan: "I am willing to back my reputation of years of work that I can aid this boy to become a useful citizen. . . . No boy of twelve can be a murderer...