Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affairs of the Congress over a 15-mile radius. Dublin florists advertised seeds which "if planted immediately will yield a wealth of bloom for the Eucharistic Congress." Another advt. said: "Enhance and prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles. An arclight, most powerful ever rigged up in Dublin, would write in the sky such inscriptions as "Hail the King-Adoremus-Laudamus Te." President Eamon de Valera's journal, The Irish...
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...
...another son, an infant, who likewise lacks sweat glands. He is too young to go ducking himself. So she dowses him from time to time with scuppers of water. Neither child can sleep unless his night clothes and mattress are wet. They take daytime naps in their damp cellar, with moist sacks for pillows...
...home for the deaf at Gorlitz, Silesia, to warn the inmates of fire, every mattress was equipped with a shaker, electrically agitated...
...lingerie was none other than that pious midget the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He had amplified his customary loin cloth with a scarf thrown over his shoulders, and a cheap watch dangled from his waist. Perspiring porters rushed ashore with St. Gandhi's clattering collection of stew pans, his mattress, his cans of goat's milk and his suitcase. But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma...