Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While all these rumors of wage reductions are rampant there isn't a chance of buying power creeping out from under the bed."?Gilbert Tennent Hodges, oldtime New York SMI man, past president of the Federation who was elected again last week...
Vastly tickled by his fame, Troubadour Downey has no reluctance in stating that he eats three banana splits daily, has a blue chow named Teddy, sleeps raw* in a double bed, calls his wife "Lover," is covered with moles, bleeds easily when shaving. Superstitious, he still carries a cats-eye ring and holy medals for good luck. Because his name appears in their advertisements, he keeps Camels in his pocket and gives them all to friends. Quick-tempered, he once rebuked a famous polo player who was making too much noise in his night club. Shrewd, when Walter Winchell, famed...
...Schiff, graduate of Yale in 1925. After dinner he chatted quietly with his son, who since Jan. 1 has also been his partner in Kuhn, Loeb. About 10:30 he went to his bedroom, put his knife, wallet, loose change and other knickknacks on the dresser, went to bed. About 4 a. m. he awakened and felt a strange sensation near his heart. He arose, put on a silk dressing gown, wrapped himself in a blanket and sat by the window. It was in this position that he was found by his valet who entered the room to awaken...
...expires next September, this plan may be completed within three years. Otherwise it is likely to remain in abeyance until he returns, as stipulated by the trustees when he left. Meanwhile, Stanford buzzes secretly but excitedly, torn by fierce controversy. The tall, once robust chancellor hears on his death bed the names of the chief protagonists?Herbert Hoover, Secretary Wilbur, Acting President Robert Eckles Swain?all of them his students once. If he was sorry not to live to see them make Stanford what he had dreamed it, he had other great memories to fall back on. His life...
Newshawks from all over Europe converged upon Gurgl by rail, motor, cycle and airplane. Before long the mild-mannered Professor Piccard was impelled to say, in reply to a question about his "suffering": ". . . the worst experience is being called out of bed at 2 o'clock in the morning...