Word: cot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandburg bought this place eleven years ago, about the time he started work on The War Years, the second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put his typewriter on an old box whose height suited him. He liked to tell people that if Grant and those fellows could run their war from cracker boxes, a cracker box was good enough for him. This attic and a room on the second floor called the Lincoln Room came...
...iron cot in a concentration camp not far away lies the once-famous, still beautiful actress Emmy Ritter, convalescent and condemned to death. There is little chance that any friend knows she is there. After her trial she managed to scribble a note for Mark, her son, and give it to Fritz, the surly old servant of the Ritters who had been brought to testify. But Mark is in New York, and Fritz may not have dared or cared to mail it to him. Emmy no longer has influential friends; she has lived for 23 years in America. There...
Anna is in a cot beside her, humbly dying of tuberculosis. Dr. Ditten performed the operation that saved Emmy's life for the scaffold-she had heard him ask permission to operate, just to keep his hand in. Emmy does not know that when the doctor was a boy he had treasured a photograph of her. When he tells her this, in his cold way, she has a moment of wild hope that he may save her, soon feels like a romantic fool as he goes on to give her a political lecture...
...September 3 last, Ambassador Kennedy ordered his No. 2 Personal Secretary James Seymour to form a small staff for regular night duty. Seymour bought a collapsible cot (by day it is folded up behind the Ambassador's black sofa) and took the first "lobster trick." He had no nap that night or since. By 3 a. m. he phoned Ambassador Kennedy at his country house that the Athenia was sinking, torpedoed by a German submarine, with 1,418 people aboard, some 300 of them Americans (TIME, Sept. 11. Kennedy cabled to Franklin Roosevelt: "All on Athenia rescued except those...
...this time, Carole Lombard had divorced William Powell and Gable was no longer living with his wife. Countess di Frasso's guests had been asked to come in something white. Carole Lombard arrived in a white ambulance, wearing a white nightgown, lying on a white cot which was carried in by three white-clad interns. She and Gable danced together all evening. Later, Lombard had the ambulance decorated with a red heart and sent it to Gable. He had the motor supercharged and drove about in it for two years...