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...patients in Belle-Vista Sanatorium, on the northwestern edge of Philadelphia, went to bed one night last week in their usual atmosphere of medieval gloom. For the most violent, bed was a hollowed-out slab of concrete and a pallet in a small barricaded ward or a private cubicle. Some were shackled to the concrete with straps and locks. The moderately violent slept on cots and were restrained with leather straps. The merely senile and harmlessly demented slept unfettered...
...Sage of he Age crawled from his straw pallet and struggled towards the Sanctum door as he had for the last 200 years. He rubbed the opiate ashes from his left eyelid, which he opened wide enough to perceive the Canton Trust Company calender dangling on a nail above the door...
...Varsity summary: McDonald (T) defeated Foster, 3-1; Emerson, (R) defeated Warner, 3-0; Pallet (R) defeated Kelly, 3-2 Mead (R) detested Knutzen 3-2, Swan (T) defeated Weave...
Coloured with the death of man. Such songs as On your midnight pallet lying and Bring, in this timeless grave to throw are, in perfection of tone, not far short of Shakespeare's Take, O, take those lips away and Fear no more the heat...
...heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium (Brindisi). The largest ship carried vast purple sails; its prow bore a golden lion's head. Lounging in a tent beneath the ornamented rigging was Augustus Octavian Caesar, Emperor of Italy, Gaul and the lands of the Nile. Lying on a pallet in the next ship was the Roman poet Virgil, coughing 'blood and clutching the manuscript of his unfinished masterpiece, The Aeneid...