Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was another story. The day after Bethlen's resignation, 18-year-old Archduke Otto of Hungary disappeared from Steenockerzeel Castle in Belgium. All night long excited Hungarian reporters were routing royalists out of bed to learn if Otto was attempting to seize Hungary's vacant throne. They received nothing but spluttering denials. Eventually Otto and his mother, the ex-Empress Zita, were discovered in Switzerland...
...companies were human beings, Simmons Co. might well jump into a comfortable Simmons Bed, bounce on a Beautyrest mattress, hide its venerable head at the memory of what it did in 1929 when there was madness in the air. During that year the company left its field of iron beds and accessories, branched into general furniture lines. Although sales increased monthly over the preceding year, most of the gains were because of new purchases. But the public overlooked this fact and the pool in Simmons headed by Chicago Bull Arthur W. Cutten put it to $188, the high whence...
...roundly declared his innocence, swore that his bicycle had been stolen the night before. Irish detectives went to work. Suspicion veered toward young David O'Shea, another of Dairymaid Ellen's suitors. A Dublin sleuth slipped into David's little whitewashed hut and hid under a bed for many hours. There he overheard a whispered conversation between David O'Shea and his sister. Sister O'Shea went out of the cabin with a bucket containing one yellow woolen sock and a leather gaiter, which she burned. That was enough for the sleuth. He searched...
...little girl who has managed to insinuate herself into a bigger children's game is discovered and sent to bed by her parents, dismays them by her despair...
...child shows such symptoms he should be put to bed and a doctor called. Serum can check the disease in its early stages. But if paralysis sets in, the disease will run its course. If the child does not die, much time and effort will be needed to re-educate its paralyzed muscles...