Word: bedstead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron bedstead takes up most of the space in Matisse's bedroom, where he spends his afternoons drawing and making cutouts on a breakfast tray. At either side of the bed is a revolving table with drawers printed in chalk, "Pencils," "Pens," "Scissors," "Paper...
...operatic antics in your Oct. 11 issue, I believe top honors should go to his trickery in a performance of La Bohème. Before the death scene, he removed two of the rollers from the ancient iron bed. . . . Every time the consumptive Mimi (Frances Alda) dared move, the bedstead shuddered, groaned, and gave every sign of collapsing...
Contributor. In Los Angeles, 90-year-old C. H. Sholes offered his iron bedstead to the scrap drive, explained: "I shall not need it very long anyhow...
First there is the quick glance around, the swift inventory of "the iron bedstead, the washbasin, the W.C., the barred window." Next, invariably, the prisoner tries "to pull himself up by the iron bars of the window and look out. He fails . . . but decides to . . . master the art of pulling himself up by his hands." He dusts the wall-plaster off his suit. He "pulls a face, being determined to prove that he is full of courage and confidence." Suddenly he notices, at the spyhole of his cell door, an eye. It is an eye without a man attached...