Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the house of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer was blown up (two men were blown to bits and the Roosevelt house next door was partly wrecked by the blast). Says James: "I remember it so well because Mother rushed home and gave me hell for being out of bed." Searching among the ruins of the Attorney General's house next morning, 12-year-old James found a human collar bone. He brought it home and put it on the table. "It almost spoiled the family's breakfast" he recalls...
There, bending over inky tables, amid torn newspapers, fried egg sandwiches, smudged proof sheets and pint milk bottles full of coffee, they read morning papers for late news items and about dawn put TIME to bed...
...McGoverns, finding Peiping too tame, frequented the fighting front. In one expedition they made with six newspaper correspondents, the five men and three women spent a sleepless night in one bed while dogs devouring Chinese corpses howled outside their hut. When he returned to Evanston, Bill McGovern predicted Japan would conquer and control all China within two years...
...twin-row, 14-cyl. Wright-Cyclones, any two of which will keep it aloft. At half power, they will fly the Atlantic Clipper, with 40 passengers plus 7,000 lb. of freight, 3,550 miles from New York to Southampton at 155 m.p.h. Every passenger will have a bed, converted from 77 daytime seats, a place at one of the five tables in the dining room. For newlyweds one of the clipper's 15 rooms has been set aside as a "honeymoon suite." Stripped of its passenger gear, the Clipper can carry 20 fighters, eight tons of armament...
...eleven-year term (almost four of them in Alcatraz), Chicago's No. 1 gangster, Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, was reported to have gone berserk on leaving the dining hall, to have been carried to the infirmary where he spent day after day foolishly making and unmaking his bed. No. 23 on a list of 26 items ''desirable for the happiness of man'' compiled by famed Dr. Edward Lee Thorndike, director of the Institute of Educational Research at Teachers College, Columbia University: "Something to be angry at and attack...