Word: beds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great dramatist lay on his bed in a sweltering Paris room, holding an uncorked vial of potassium cyanide and reading The Pleasure of Dying. No sooner had he decided that it was not yet his time to taste this pleasure after all, than he became suddenly convinced that a former friend, the Polish writer, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, was trying to kill him by filtering poison gas through the walls of his room. He fled, writing to a friend to take care of his remains if he were killed, since he did not wish to be cut up by medical students...
...eyes, stands 5 ft. 10 in. and carries her 158 lbs. extraordinarily well. Her father started coaching Shirley May when she was six, but has now handed the job over to Harry Boudakian, who coaches sports at Somerset Hugh. Boudakian put weight on Shirley May, makes her go to bed six nights a week...
...divided the problem into three parts, gave us each one part, and asked us to go back and write another memorandum. When we turned that in a couple of hours later, he slapped us on the back, took us home to his billet, shouted Madame de Lattre out of bed, had some eggs fried and coffee made for all, then sent us off to sleep. That morning at 9, fresh and cordial, he showed us a 15-page analysis of the problem which he had written since...
...origin of Tarzan's child (he was found in the jungle, of course), and how Tarzan and Jane happen to be living together in a tree house without benefit of clergy. Says Producer Lesser, loftily: "It has never been suggested that Tarzan and Jane share the same bed...
...More than a dozen NKVD men suddenly rushed into the room and forcibly dragged me from my bed and out of the ward . . . My slow movement down the stairs on my crutches irritated them, and they gave me a push so that I fell down. This was repeated on each flight of stairs...