Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Alpine, N. J., police removed one David Testori from a narrow ledge on the Palisades 300 ft. above the river. He had lived there two months, with a tarpaulin cover, a newspaper bed. some bread and potatoes, a razor, a fish hook, a bank book showing deposits of $719. He said he was afraid of people in New York...
Wiley Post, who flew the monoplane Winnie Mae around the world in eight days with Harold Gatty, sat on the edge of his bed in a Chicago hotel room one day last week, talking to a reporter for North American Newspaper Alliance while he dressed. Flyer Post...
Everything turned out even worse than his expectations. After a respectable performance at dinner his fatigue overcame him, drove him to bed much earlier than he had any right to go. Lady Aggie, whom he was supposed to entertain, yawned when he read her his new play, left the houseparty ostentatiously early. Philomena embarrassed him by promising to leave her husband for him. then made him feel a fool by telling her husband all about it and changing her mind. On the verge of a breakdown Hugo made an unforgivable scene, pulled gossipy Corny Cooke's nose. In despair...
...Columbus, Ohio. William Phillips, serving a two-year sentence in jail, refused a parole. Said he: "Food's good, bed's good, and I like the people...
...politics, went to Albany. On Feb. 12, 1884 was born their first and only child who was someday to become Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Writes Biographer Pringle: ''Roosevelt came in. ... He found his wife barely able to recognize him, and all that night he sat at the head of the bed and held her in his arms. Just before 3 o'clock in the morning his mother, who had developed typhoid fever, died and Theodore, standing by her bed, echoed the words of his brother: 'There is a curse on this house.' Dawn dragged into the next...