Word: cot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frill'd and closely curtain'd cot...
Cora Neilson of Wynnewood, Pa., took along a cot. U. S. Senator-Suspect William Scott Vare went out in a crowd for the first time since he fell sick a year ago. Worshipful Master Ralph A. Werthein fell dead beside his radio. William Tennyson of Philadelphia stood in line a day and a night and sold his place for $5. One Edward Johnson of Decatur, Ill. sat on a camp stool in the street all night, bought a good $1 ticket, sat down again in the bleachers and slept through what he had come to see. Deputy Marshal McBride...
When George Herman Ruth was seriously ill in a hospital, his signed stories continued to appear daily. Mr. Broun advances an explanation that had been given him by famed Sports-scribe W. O. McGeehan: "That the Babe escaped from his cot each night by means of a rope made of knotted sheets and staggered to the telegraph office with his copy...
...Sometime in the hours of darkness, tongues of flames (perhaps from the gasoline lamp) lapped the cottage and consumed it. In the morning a man, coming to rent land, found the charred skeleton of a building, and upon what had been a sleeping porch, beside what had been a cot, a body...
...week sound pictures are shown there. President Hoover does not care much for "talkies" -"They demand too close attention." ¶ Last week Billy returned to the White House. Billy is the Hoover opossum. In the spring the President lent Billy to the Hyattsville (Md.) High School as a mas cot. Hyattsville, thanks to Billy, won the county championships in soccer, basket ball, track, baseball. Wrote President Hoover to the school borrowers: "I am glad to have your report on the efficiency of Billy Opossum. . . . Precautions will be taken to preserve his health and spirits for the further needs of Prince...