Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late, so that would make it doubly hard to get an extension. Yes, there was no doubt about it, he must get up. Screwing up his courage, and valiantly summoning what little strength he had left, the Vag threw off his bed covers, and then fell back onto the mattress overcome by the exertion...
...were grouped in and about a queer-looking contraption-a sort of double-decked platform in the air, held together by invisible piano wires. The whole thing was hung by cables from enormous pulleys on the stage ceiling. The lower deck, besides having springs and pads like a huge mattress, was covered with a carpet. In fact, this super-gadget was a "magic carpet," reminiscent of the one Douglas Fairbanks rode 13 years ago in the Thief of Bagdad. Eddie Cantor had used this one for three weeks in his picture-in-process, AH Baba Goes to Town...
Critics paid especial attention to Todros Geller's swart, black-hooded Spanish Woman, to Macena Barton's solid black-browed Rosana in Purple, to E. Millman's Resting-two vagrants in a -phouse, one sitting on a barrel, the other lolling on a green mattress. Visitors stopped in swarms before L. J. Ambrose's Debutante, a young lady wearing nothing but white slippers being presented by her bosomy mother to a group of starched top-hatted socialites; and Michael Madsen's Statue of Hercules in Action, a picture of two affectionate moppets inspecting a statue...
...artificial respirator is a casket-like steel box 74 in. long, 65 in. high, 44 in. wide. At the front end is a rubber ruff through which Fred Snite's head projects face up, like a mystic's dream of bodiless intelligence. Within, on a sheeted mattress, lies his flaccid, wasted body covered with a night dress...
...hardwood and the covering was gaudily decorated with Osage hieroglyphic figures. He conceded that this might be a fit place for a red man to sleep. Much later, he was induced to spend a night in the house. He lay down upon a bed but, when morning came, the mattress had been dragged to the floor and John slept there...