Word: pillow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Webster's New International Dictionary. "Stramash," meaning "disturbance, ruction, broil," was applied to chronic political contentions in France. "Jimp," which has five meanings, among them (adjectively) "neat, spruce, trim," was applied to the leg of the original of Mark Twain's "Becky Thatcher." "Musnud" is the pillow or cushioned seat sat upon by an oriental potentate; was employed by TIME,-somewhat pedantically- to a university or seat-of-learning. "Kudos," of Greek derivation, means "praise, glory," was used in reference to honorary college degrees.-ED. Hibbard Flayed...
Upon a trampled front-lawn heaped with furniture?a charred bureau, a mattress, some rugs, a torn pillow, the kitchen chairs? Harold Kronk and family of Goshen, N.Y., stood watching their house burn down. Almost everything had been saved; only one worry lingered in the minds of the Kronks. Where was the baby? "He's up there," cried Mrs. Harold Messinger, 75-year-old grandmother of Harold Kronk, great-grandmother of the missing baby, pointing to a window through which the smoke streamed in livid grey-green waves. She broke the restraining grasp of the firemen...
...slow ly into his chair in Ford's Theatre one April night, three men carried him across the street to a little house opposite. It was the house of William Peterson, a tailor. The President lay there all night, and all night his blood seeped into the square feather pillow under his head...
Peterson, the tailor, is gone but his pillow exists yellow with age and crusted still with the fatal stains. Last week the will of Tailor Peterson's daughter, Mrs. Pauline Peterson Wenzing, was probated. This Mrs. Wenzing was a girl of 13 on the night when her mother turned from the lamp and her father got up from his stitching to answer a wild knock ing at the door. It was in her own bed (on the ground floor) that the men who came tramping into the house laid their long, gaunt, helpless burden...
...Wenzing willed the pillow to a Washington schoolmistress, Mrs. Jessie F. Webster. With it went the following affidavit: "This is to certify that the pillow now in the possession of Jessie F. Webster of the City of Washing ton, D. C., is the same pillow on which President Abraham Lincoln died, April 15, 1865. His death occurred in my room in my old home, No. 516 Tenth Street, Northwest, Washington...