Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock one evening in Detroit's Hotel Statler, John L. Lewis shook his bushy head and sat up in bed to take his medicine. His secretary put a spoonful in his mouth. Mr. Lewis swallowed and made a face. He had influenza. Shortly a man left the sickroom. Newshawks in the corridor crowded around him asking, "How are things going?" The answer was curt: "Things are getting hot." To newshawks patroling the corridor all evening it seemed that the heating took a long time...
...comfortable house and homely bed...
...accomplishment indeed, and I find his the best interpretation of the Danish prince I have yet seen. Back to Cambridge soon afterwards, with the lights of the Business School leering contemptuously across the river at the far dimmer eyes of the Houses on the other side. To bed to dream of sitting at "Hamlet" with Mr. Widener's first folio of Shakespere in my lap, keeping careful track of Mr. Gielgud's lines...
...installed in a vacant set of undergraduate rooms in one of the seven houses which very roughly correspond to Cambridge colleges. I had a bed-room, sitting room and bathroom. The sitting room had central-heating and a telephone. There was no nonsense about the telephone either. An undergraduate could call his "St. Louis woman" or anyone he liked at any hour of the day or night without any more bother than from his own home. Every set of rooms in the houses had a dial telephone connected directly with the town exchange. The bathroom had every modern convenience except...
...Trotsky last week, "Let us hope he will find a sure refuge in Mexico-a revolutionary country where a great revolutionary may be appreciated and understood." At latest reports, Host Diego Rivera had had to return to a hospital with a kidney ailment; Mrs. Trotsky had gone to bed with what seemed to be a recurrence of her malaria; Guest Trotsky, respectfully watched and waited on by dark-eyed young Hostess Rivera, had resumed dictation to his secretaries of his monumental Biography of Lenin, begun nearly two years...