Word: beds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent a week in Stillman--Ward Three, Bed Nine. Two days after my arrival, I noticed that they had put a new patient in Bed Ten. My new neighbor was a nice fellow--or at least he never had the opportunity to prove himself otherwise, because he was the monster at rest. He passed twenty-two of his first twenty-four Stillman hours in a state of complete oblivion...
...bedroom" could be called only semiprivate; it was separated from the living room by nothing except the chimney, a flight of steps, and a heavy curtain. The master, when the curtain was drawn aside, would be able to survey a large part of his home without -'stirring "from bed, for some walls stopped short of the ceiling, as in a bathhouse, to "suggest spaciousness." However, the top of the fireplace doubled as a stair landing, and the living room itself (mercilessly dominated by a Breuer-designed television set) was cramped...
...Will Shakespeare's home town flocked the first arrivals of the 150,000 money-bearing pilgrims from some 75 countries who are expected to come, gawk, worship and spend before the first leaves fall. The hardier Bardolators (as one London critic calls them) will swarm for "Bed, Bard and Breakfast" to Stratford's 45 hotels and 47 guest houses. They will also get their fill of the master's works- eight plays a week in the $1,000,000 riverside Shakespeare Memorial Theater...
...books and wrote the first 60,000 words of his first novel "on trains, in railway stations, in hotel rooms, and occasionally worked all night." With a contract from Publisher Russell Doubleday in his pocket, he went to Italy to write, hung a schedule on the wall beside his bed: "Write a chapter every 4 days; write 1⅓⅓pages (1,500 words) every day for 120 days...
...fine collection of 25 cent pocket books, found in another corner of the room; they had titles like "Fifi' or "The Impatient Virgin." And every day brought the 6:30 thermometer. It grew increasingly tough. Smith pattered around the ward, suggesting that tottering arrivals be "placed immediately in bed." He frequently curled up in his covers and moaned "morphine, morphine,' in a pained-wracked voice. He waggled his fingers at feverish flu-victims and solemnly pronounced "Leprosy." He played cards until he found he knew all the cards from the back. He read patients each others fever charts. He even...