Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British women in China last week. Mrs. A. R. J. Herne, wife of a British engineer of the Tientsin-Pukow railway, was sleeping in their house on the outskirts of Nanking some distance from her husband's bedroom. A Nationalist soldier on a rampage broke into her bed room, stabbed her with his bayonet, making the third attack unfortunate Mrs. Hearne has been subjected to since she went to live in China. "If brigand threats of further outrages are carried out," he warned the Nationalist Government, "the result will be a deplorable . . . reaction of public opinion throughout the world...
...sombre moaning of fiddles, melancholy piping of flutes and rumble of tympani a foredoomed Launcelot was born. Bells tolled faintly in the distance, harbingers of Woe. The scene changed abruptly. Seething with passion the Knight of the Lake invaded the bed of Queen Guinevere. Followed a pallid flashback to Elaine floating on her barge, dead for love. The mood became reminiscent: the love-blighted lily of Astolat guarding the wayward knight's shield in a tower, pining away. The barge motif was again heard. Betrayed, undone, Queen & lover fled Camelot, Guinevere to Amesbury nunnery and the veil, Launcelot...
...Whippings: Girls in the adolescent period have been laid on a bed, or made to lie across a large laundry basket in the attic of the girls' building, and had physical punishment administered on their naked flesh by application of lashes from a piece of rubber piping or tubing . . . from 100 to 250 strokes. In some cases so many strokes were given that one attendant had to relieve another in applying the strokes. "The Water Cure-so called: This was administered by placing the girl in a shower bath compartment, stripped naked except for bloomers. The cold shower overhead...
...station. The doctor who examined him in Lawyer Klein's home diagnosed his condition as exhaustion caused by self-starvation. The Kleins fed their wandering friend (he used to mail the Klein children sticks of gum with a dime slipped under each wrapper), tried to put him to bed. He insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's birthplace. He refused a Pullman ticket, made the hot trip in a day coach. At Staunton he collapsed, died of pneumonia which...
Ralph Ince, cineman, trolling for sea bass 18 mi. offshore from Santa Monica, Calif., yanked his line to free it from a kelp bed. fell to the deck in agony. The line had whipped back over his head, embedded the three-inch fishhook in the base of his skull. Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy singer, stood by in his fast motorboat, sped Ince ashore to a hospital...