Word: headboards
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...small bedroom is tented with cotton in blue, red and gold stripes. The library has a door, concealed by bookshelves, that leads directly into this bedroom. The master bedroom, whose ceiling is overlaid with the Chinese tea paper, has a bedspread made from a Greek rug, and a headboard upholstered in mustard-colored leather...
...Stilly Night. Near Kevil, Ky., lightning split and hurled the headboard of their bed across the room, scorched the mattress and bed linen, awakened but did not injure Harvey Tucker and his wife...
...ever slept in." To his mind, it was also too big to fit properly in the President's bedroom. Last week it had been relegated to a guest room, and Truman was luxuriating in a modern three-quarter width affair-"a kind of Hollywood bed"-with a low headboard and no footboard...
...independence, he applied to a Manhattan department store, R. H. Macy's. "We went and got," said Macy's Decorator in Chief Betty Gallagher Ormsby, "everything." That included bedspreads, crystal goblets, hand-cut chandeliers, a merry-go-round, toothpick frills, a steak masticator, a fish refrigerator, a headboard of pale café-au-lait satin for President Tubman's bed. From Monrovia, capital of Africa's only Negro republic, Macy's was flooded by radiograms: "Engraved glassware imperative;" "Ship constitutional range" (that was supposed to mean "institutional," i.e., big enough for a large institution); "ship...
...discovered not the headboard but the coffin itself, forgotten and dust-covered in an attic. Thereafter he so stirred up the civic pride of St. Augustinians, even addressing the local Chamber of Commerce, that in 1940 the coffin was removed to a more seemly resting place in the Chapel of Nuestra Senora de la Leche, where in three months it was viewed by 16,000 tourists...