Word: cots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tourists who go to Vienna nowadays may pay a few schillings and wander fairly freely through the gloomy Imperial Palace. They may gaze to their heart's content at the iron cot on which old Franz Josef slept, at the basin in which ample Maria Theresa bathed. But one wing in the Hofburg is barred to them. Tourists are not allowed to prowl through the rooms which belonged to Archduke Rudolf, Franz Josef's son who died mysteriously at his hunting lodge at Mayerling. Rudolf's rooms have not been preserved as a museum for tragic memories...
While Samuel Insull was in flight, his long-nosed brother Martin John Insull was tossing on a cot in one of the dingiest, harshest jails in Canada. There was no running water. The meals were terrible. He was not allowed to puff his pipe...
...with a Moslem boy who quarreled with her, cut off her nose. In court Widow Khurshaid said she had cut off her own nose. Afterward she gave the boy about 4,000 rupees, offered to marry him. When he refused her, she got him drunk, tied him to his cot, cut off his nose. In court, she pleaded guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor...
...solved the electoral issue "in a moment of reflection" and that he vished to see him. The meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond endurance by the piteous sight of the Mahatma quivering on a cot in the prison yard beneath the shade of a mango tree. One & all they rushed away to patch up with the Raj some sort of settlement to which the Mahatma would agree...
Before going home, Governor Murray retired to a room in a bank where his favorite brand of mattress (a "Beauty Rest") was put on a cot for him. He lay down, drank two cups of steaming coffee and hot water, held an informal reception for old timers who had known him before he ran away from home...