Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twilight the machine guns on the walls were quiet, still waiting. A thousand people and a regiment of militia were at the gates. An airplane droned overhead. Death came for the rioters across the yard, up into the cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with mattresses, chairs, beds at corners where they could shoot down a corridor two ways and back up to a stairway. Troopers told a convict named Johnson, who was helping them, to pull a mattress off a barricade. A bullet stopped Johnson when he took his first step. A bullet stopped Captain...
Shoulders are sore and heads not quite clear this morning in many quarters of the Yard. A long trip in a cold rumble seat, a rather late evening somewhere-in-Boston, not quite enough blankets and no mattress at all do not form quite the proper prelude for a holiday. That nevertheless is the program of a large percentage of New Haven visitors when they come to Cambridge every odd fall...
...worked his way on a freight train to Phillips-Andover Academy. There he convinced the faculty of his right to enter, slept on a self-made straw mattress. He was soon leading his classes, playing in school sports, tutoring faculty children, organizing religious meetings, preaching in the pulpits of nearby towns...
...cubism, he thought rather well of Dreiser, Cabell, and so much of Proust as he had rather laboriously mastered. He played golf reasonably well, and did not often talk about his scores. He liked fishing in Ontario, but never made himself believe that he preferred hemlock bows to a mattress. He was common sense apotheosized...
Died. Samuel Newman, 76, manufacturer & inventor (cigar tip cutter, bed rail lock, pneumatic mattress); in Cincinnati...