Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote Senators were summoned from the stump and the sick bed. Democrats flayed the House for trying to dictate to the Senate, while Speaker Longworth and other potent Representatives stood along the chamber wall sombrely listening. First to a vote was the Debenture. Result: 43-10-41 in favor of recession. A dozen insurgent Republicans and six pro-tariff Democrats left their parties on this issue...
Directly responsible for the Philippines as Secretary of War, Patrick Jay Hurley from his sick bed sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Insular Affairs opposing, in the name of the Hoover Administration, freedom for the Islands now or at a fixed future date as "disastrous alike to the ultimate interests of both the Filipino and American people...
...biggest crowd since His Majesty's nearly fatal pneumonia (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928, et seq.) began to gather outside the tall iron fence not long after dawn. About 8 a. m. a rumor escaped mysteriously from the Palace that the Sovereign had risen from his Royal and Imperial bed. Half an hour later he and Queen Mary were said, on the high authority of a scullery maid, to be eating savory kippers. About 9 a. m. the patient, patriotic crowd learned that "the King is examining congratulatory telegrams and cablegrams from all over the world"?this from an important...
Numbers. Every other bed in U. S. hospitals is occupied by a mental case. By 1970 there will be a million such cases, or 635 for every 100,000 people in the U. S. In 1880 there were only 63 per 100,000. Explanation: the wear-&-tear of an increasingly rushing civilization; public recognition that mental ills must be treated as well as bodily ills.?Dr. William Alanson White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, president of this International Congress...
...easy for the women to resist the crippled nonagenarians left about town, but not so easy when the soldiers came marching home. Sly subterfuges were resorted to by the excited ladies on the Acropolis. Myrrhina remembered that she really should go home to lay a new spread on the bed, to which Miss Bainter scornfully replied: "You want to lay something else on the bed!" Kalonika stole the helmet from Athena's head, concealing it beneath her gown. Miss Bainter: "Why, Kalonika, you weren't pregnant last night." Miss Hopkins: "But I didn't know it last...