Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aloft in a stretching apparatus was his bullet-shattered leg. Into his room, when his nurse was absent, suddenly broke two hostile beer gangsters. From under his pillow, Gangster McErlane whipped out a gun, fired five shots. Before they retreated, the beer gangsters put three fresh wounds into their bed-ridden enemy...
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston last week opened a pavilion, the Baker Memorial, whose low rates may become the norm for such hospitalization. A bed in a nine-bed ward cost $4.00 a day, in a four-bed room $4.50, in a two-bed room $5.50, in a single room $6.50. These rates supply high-grade sleeping quarters, meals, general nursing, staff supervision, but not private nursing or private medical or surgical care. They are the antithesis of those in Massachusetts General's own luxurious Phillips House* or Manhattan's new Doctor's Hospital (TIME...
...only certain way of preventing heart-strain in a child is by the confinement of the patient in bed. But what busy mother can attend the needs of a restless child in bed for months? No more could the child be taken to an acute hospital, because there are beds enough only for children who need active nursing care, and because the expense for one child is unduly high. Dr. Emerson feels strongly that state hospitals are needed in which a child can spend one or two years and receive his education at the same time...
...great Thomas Carlyle. Actor Leslie Banks is introduced as a penniless Scotsman, living morally and thriftily in the garret of a bordello and studying to be an insurance actuary. Actress Helen Menken is a wan creature who faints on his doorstep. He befriends her to the extent of a bed, a portion of his gruel and the services of a doctor. The backslid daughter of a scholar, she can quote reams of the pious Carlyle, but she compares her own way of life to that of Aspasia, most successful of the Athenian courtesans. The Scotsman talks of her soul...
...Cambridge, Mass., Everett I. Hume became enraged when his wife wore her galoshes to bed...