Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabeth I advise him to spend the two dollars on Froude's volume about the Queen. A college room is certainly more restful than the Colonial and the details of Froude more authentic than those of Mr. Anderson. Anyone not possessing that sincere desire had better go to bed...
...have a three-year-old daughter who insists on taking it to bed with her every afternoon for her nap, in place of a doll...
...year. Fingering the ribbon of his glasses with an air of abstraction, he heard Mr. Capone's young doctor and nurses testify that, down with pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses who related how the supposedly bed-ridden gangster had taken an airplane ride to Bimini (bootleg base), a boat trip to Nassau, attended the Sharkey-Stribling fight in Miami, the Hialeah races. "It is evident," commented Judge Wilkerson, "that someone is lying...
...Judge Wilkerson pronounced judgment, without taking the case under advisement. "The trouble with this whole proceeding," said he, "was that the defendant was trifling with the court. . . . The evidence established beyond all possibility of doubt that during the month of February the respondent was not confined to his bed. . . . The statement made on March 5 that he had been out of bed only ten days was glaringly false." Found guilty of contempt, Capone was sentenced to serve six months in the Cook County jail...
Chilean reporters who had told their newspapers that H. R. H. went home and to bed "at about 4 a. m. without playing baccarat." felt foolish when the facts came out. Seasoned baccarat players harked back to 1890 when almost the whole English press raged at the then Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) for baccaratting, when German papers headlined sarcastically "Ich Deal," when the Archbishop of Canterbury had to step in for the honor of the Throne...