Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zaro Agha, Turk, whose passport says he is 156 years old (TIME, March 17), was knocked down and badly bruised by a Manhattan motorist. He was rushed to his hotel where X-ray showed all bones to be intact. Next day he sat up in bed, announced he felt well except for a pain in his stomach, ordered a hotdog and corn- on-the cob, to test a new set of false teeth...
...does it with her usual vitality. A picture star having fun in Europe, she is married in an early sequence to a bridegroom who is standing proxy for somebody else. Events lead naturally to a pursuit in pajamas through a magnificent suite in a continental hotel where every double bed contains Charles Ruggles, who is there by mistake. He does his famous drunk act, but the best shot is the one in which he imitates...
...with full-piece orchestra, established singers and a conductor to teach her opera technique. Now in a way reminiscent of her movie past she has equipped herself with a deluge of fantastic publicity. All Los Angeles heard last week that at home in Manhattan she sleeps in a canopied bed, an ermine rug for a blanket, toes always exposed; that she is never seen in public without her husband, has 36 fur coats, wears 14-karat-gold hairpins; that in Europe, where the Brulatours travel as Count & Countess, a Cairo sheik offered her husband four of his choicest wives...
...authoritative curiosity through the church nave and accessory rooms. A small group attended him on this his first inspection of the church since his regular summer vacation on Mouse Island in Boothbay Harbor, Me., "where a man can put on a flannel shirt in the morning and go to bed in it at night if he feels like it." The church, he saw quickly, would be spick & span enough for his first sermon service therein...
...wear a green skull cap with a white button on top. But he need no longer salute his professors with perfunctory respect, no longer need he wear a coat at all times, no longer must his Coonskin hang idle in his closet; nor must the wary freshman climb into bed of an evening fearing that somewhere within the sheets there lies a two pound flounder; for hazing, too, at Dartmouth has passed in to history...