Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nights the one window in the bedroom of my Attic makes clatter enough for twenty, shaking and banging, postponing sleep. Lie and shiver under blankets as proof as gossamer, which absorbs the sheets' unfriendly chill. Gradually warmer inside and colder outside my bed. The tip of the nose stays outside the blankets, stays cold. Like a healthy...
When Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner got into a bed in London's Cardiff Hotel, she quickly jumped out. The sheets were strewn with sand...
...Havana, police raided a hotel, found pretty Señorita Librada Aida Aspuru lying naked on a bed in a darkened room, were informed she had been living there four years, her board and lodging paid for by Señor José Gregorio Silva. Protested she: "I didn't know anything about this World, and I don't want to know anything about it. I want to live alone, to be let alone, and to live in darkness." Said Señor Silva, confirming her story: "She has been suffering an hysteria of sadness. ... I am doing...
Supper time for the evening shift is 8 p. m., a half-hour. At 12:30 a. m. Big Tony's eight-hour day is done. He is in bed by 1 a. m., often sleeping until 2 p. m. the next afternoon. Occasionally he gets up earlier to bowl, his record score being 250. On Sunday he goes to a Catholic church with his mother, takes in a cinema in the afternoon or evening. Big Tony Grzebyk works a five-day week at 90? per hour-$36 for a 40-hour week...
...bed in a flutter with the chiming of ten o'clock. That worthy master of slaves, my tutor, sends me to sit in on lectures at the most ill-advised times of the day and night. A stop in the hall to glance at the morning paper and surprised to see the quarrelsome Republicans still flay our popular President. How they groan and tear their hair when they think that Mr. Roosevelt will lead the next Congress around by the ears, like a stable-boy at a Scotch tavern. And into my head march the jolly lines of those talented...