Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago, after a long hard session of work, Dr. Fishbein suffered an attack of Bell's palsy. The right side of his face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...
Under mussy, good-hearted Columnist Broun, who has been aptly described as "an unmade bed," the New Yorkers and their convention allies lost no time last week in introducing and passing a succession of liberal-radical resolutions through the convention...
...agony of the hot tears that blister his fevered cheeks as he nightly kisses the parched lips and looks upon the famine-pinched faces of his children, as they go supperless to their bed of straw! Who can tell the anguish of his heart when the wife of his bosom bends over him with her pale, earnest face, and, as she wipes the fever-drops from his brow, with the sublime energy of woman's endurance, whispers resignation, hope! . . . How different would be the condition of such a person, if, in the days of his health and strength...
...advance; to pour tea at several different receptions in the course of the same afternoon and 'look in on at least a dozen others, unless I were at home to hundreds of callers myself; to receive six dinner invitations for the same night; and to tumble into bed at four in the morning after having gone to a private musicale and a ball or two after dinner." Most amusing incident she can remember is the late William Jennings Bryan getting high on what he thought was nonalcoholic punch. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt's words of comfort to the late...
...Preacher Lee was hoarse, weary. In the morning he ploughed along, still in the Old Testament, finally whispered: "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." Averaging about 185 words a minute, he had preached 21 hr. 20 min., spoken some 200,000 words. He went to bed, soon arose feeling fit and claiming he had gained a pound. Then he donned a white silk blouse of his own design, which he usually wears only at baptismal services, and posed for photographers...