Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albuquerque, N. Mex. a thief broke into the house of George Martin, stole a jacket, a mattress, a sheepskin coat, a pair of overalls. Next day he brought them back, left a note...
...dancer looking for work, she allowed a white slaver to take her to his room where she was badly beaten, but refused to take her clothes off, and had the presence of mind, while he was "ripping and tearing" at her, to stick her monogram pin in the mattress for identification purposes. When she went to a nudist colony she found herself in an even more embarrassing situation, but says she kept the victory. Gal Reporter Lowell says she was ashamed at first of writing for a tabloid, but ended "by being proud that any words I could assemble...
...banks will take care of all needs- except of course the hysterical demands of hoarders. When people find they can get their money, the phantom of fear will soon be laid. I can assure you it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress...
...born in a gypsy wagon, helped his parents peddle laces and thread, clicked out his first dancing steps on manhole tops. In his early days Escudero's tricks were not confined to his dancing. He rarely had money to pay his hotel bills, so he would throw his mattress out the window before the proprietor was up in the morning, jump for it and disappear. He was arrested once at a bullfight for squeezing the juice of an orange at a fellow spectator who held his umbrella in the way. He still cannot resist frightening women by suddenly snorting...
...front page of the issue in which the London Times described the victory at Trafalgar was covered with advertisements, modest and factual. The modern newspaper and periodical is plastered with notices which appeal primarily to the emotions. We are asked to discard our reasoning faculties and buy a certain mattress because a certain society leader allowed one to be photographed in her house; to buy a certain cigarette because a movie actress finds its advertisements a convenient vehicle for her publicity; to buy a new car because the paint job resembles in color design the wings of the peacock...