Word: bunked
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...Bunk." When he got back last week to his large Washington office on the seventh floor of the old Southern Railway Building one block from his room at the Willard Hotel, Chairman Legge summoned newsmen and told them what he thought. Said...
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...Russian drama in the U. S., onetime member of the Moscow Art Theatre, it is the first Manhattan production of the play since the Moscow company visited the city five years ago. Despite the fact that Mr. Laurence's version employs such U. S. colloquialisms as ''bunk . . . all wet . . . caught with his pants down," it preserves the strange compound of squalor and beauty with which the original depicts a sorry crowd of derelicts living in an unspeakable Moscow basement and, like tatterdemalion philosophers, pondering their own destiny and that of the race. In an almost formless succession...
Next evening the Mob marched to Eastland jail. They dragged Murderer Ratliff from his bunk, stripped him of his clothes, paraded him 200 yards through the main streets to a telegraph pole. A rope jerked Ratliff off the ground, broke, let him down with a thump. Under the code of the Old West, when a lynching rope broke, the victim was freed. Eastland that night did not follow the Old West's code. Fifteen terrible minutes passed before a new grass rope was produced. Up went Ratliff a second time...
...find the play very interesting," said His Majesty as the second act curtain fell on Subaltern Raleigh sobbing hysterically on his bunk, "and I am looking forward to seeing what happens in the next...