Word: beds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect of all this suggested a dangerous possibility: smog would soon be so valuable to the publicity men, radio gag writers and others who now make their living off jokes about Los Angeles' dry river bed and rare snowstorms, that support of antismog ordinances would be regarded as proof of disloyalty to the local way of life. After that it would be only a question of time before Los Angeles began boasting "Bigger Smogs than Pittsburgh" and movie stars took to wearing miners' lamps instead of dark glasses and sunshine was apologetically dismissed as "unusual weather...
...marriage of Porter and Katherine Moresby was obviously a flop and their North African jaunt was bringing out the worst in it. In the little Arab town of Bou Noura, they lay on a hotel bed fully clothed, getting drunk on a bottle of Scotch. A mosquito netting kept off the vicious flies, and as they talked, the star-studded African twilight fell and native drums kept up an insistent rhythm. Being wealthy and intense young New York intellectuals, Kit and Port Moresby glibly fell into lingo so appropriate that Noel Coward might have written...
...River-Bed. Unofficially, in his letters, Lafcadio Hearn told a different story. "It seems as if everything had suddenly become clear to me, and utterly void of emotional interest," he wrote a few years after his arrival. "There are no depths to stir, no race-profundities to explore: all is like a Japanese riverbed . . . never filled but in times of cataclysm and destruction." The Japanese government added to his disillusionment by easing him out of his university job. In the last years of his life he often longed to escape both family and country. He never did. A heart attack...
Senator Kenneth McKellar, 80, painfully burned by hot water when he took a tumble in the bathtub, refused to be photographed wearing pajamas in a Memphis hospital. He got out of bed, dressed, went back to bed fully clothed and then told the cameramen to shoot away...
...girl (Cathy O'Donnell) hopelessly try to filter through a police dragnet. As their flight zigzags through central Texas, they get their first good view of the world and their first happiness in it. Only rarely, e.g., in a morning shot of Cathy purring glamorously in bed, do they act in tried and untrue Hollywood style. As usual in a cross-country chase, the movie spots its young folks in a grubby motel, a Greyhound bus and a cabaret, but They Live by Night handles them with realistic kid gloves. Cathy sometimes combs a too-pretty hairdo, but mostly...