Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More suspicious than most were two reporters from the Le Mars semiweekly Globe-Post, who tried to get a picture of 91-year-old Mrs. Trow on Election Day, were refused. When they returned with policemen and broke into the house, they found Mrs. Knox ill in bed, no trace of her mother. Mrs. Knox told the sheriff that her mother was on a trip, that she had hired a woman to impersonate her. She had been collecting her mother's $40 monthly Civil War pension. Pressed, Mrs. Knox said Mrs. Trow had gone to Nebraska with a friend...
Modern Turkey last week lost her foremost social and political architect. In Istanbul's white-domed alabaster Dolma-baghche Palace, in other days the home of sultans and califs, President Kamal Atatürk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha...
Asked whether her "Daddy" would celebrate that night as would most other jubilant Crimson supporters Isabel replied, "I think he'll go right to bed; he's pretty tired...
...season became a flop, none they panned became a hit. But this season the public has been reversing critics' decisions right & left. In spite of critical praise, Missouri Legend slowly sickened and died. In spite of criticules, Hellzapoppin, consistently puffed by Walter Winchell, quickly rallied, jumped out of bed and took the town. And with qualified reviews, Knickerbocker Holiday has become a success, Kiss the Boys Goodbye a smash...
...Milan, Italy, Paolo Motta and his bride, Teresina, retired on their wedding night. Water began to drip on Paolo's neck. He looked for the annoying source, could not find it, went damply muttering back to bed. Next night the same thing happened again. This time he traced the water to a hole in the ceiling. Paolo Motta rushed upstairs, broke into the room above, found one of his popular bride's disgruntled suitors standing over the hole with a pitcher of water...