Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admirable Crichton straight out of Sir James Barrie's play. With meticulous calm he saved 23 people by shepherding them, including the Countess de Fontnouvelle (wife of the French consul-general) and her infant, into the Ottman house, signaling for help from the roof with a bed sheet. At the storm's height he reported to the house guests: "I am sure that our signal was observed, but the situation is most disturbing and perhaps I should venture outside and bring help from the mainland." He then fought his way through the storm to find three stout lads...
...Yield Unconditionally!" It was smart of Dr. Benes then to go to bed in Prague as though he had disposed of the matter and have to be waked up at 2 :00 a. m. by the Ministers of Britain and France who were kept arguing until 3:30 r. m. in their efforts to make a clear cut demand that Czechoslovakia "yield unconditionally." Every hour counts when it is a question of mobilization and counter mobilization -even more when it was a question of how Dr. Benes could gain precious hours in which anti-Nazi public opinion could emerge from...
...title of the sombrest painter now alive, which is a considerable distinction, belongs by general consent to Georges Rouault. Born shortly after a shell knocked his mother out of bed during the Paris insurrection of 1871, Rouault was first apprenticed to a maker of stained glass, later became the favorite pupil of the academic painter, Gustave Moreau. Since Moreau's death in 1897, pale, clerkish Georges Rouault has lived a mystic, melancholy life. Every day he goes to the little Moreau museum, of which he is curator, near the Gare St. Lazare, often lunches violently with his old friend...
...Washington last week highdomed SEC Commissioner Jerome Frank lay in bed suffering with pneumonia. But even as he did so he added a chapter to depression economic philosophy. Before a meeting of the National Association of Securities Commissioners in Kansas City, husky SEC Lawyer Chester Lane read a speech that Commissioner Frank had written, a speech that excited comment in financial circles, drew even an approving nod from the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune...
Lewis said he had been aroused out of bed at 6:45 o'clock Saturday morning to report for service with the Guardsmen and that the Undergraduates had been called at the same time. Those who grabbed their uniforms for the first truck included I. Tucker Burr 3rd '39, Graham B. Blaine, Jr., '40, John Hoar. Jr. '40, Paul G. Counihan '39, John T. Coolidge, 3rd '41, and Malcolm Marshall...