Word: pillows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Commons: "The duties of the Chair do not become lighter as the years pass on. With each new Parliament there are more members who wish to take an active part in the proceedings by question or in debate, and a Speaker often carries to his pillow an acute sense of loss for the speeches that were undelivered?speeches no doubt much better than those to which he has listened. [Laughter, cheers...
Back Talk. "When I knocked on the [hotel] door, a somewhat impatient voice bade me enter. I found Senator Glass lying on top of his counterpane, angrily nursing a bandaged toe, his hair and his pillow and his pajama coat and the bedding discomposed as he tossed...
...gave him my name and the purpose of my call. He motioned me to a chair near the foot of the bed, rumpled the pillow under his head, and exclaimed...
...from the actors on the stage-which they, in hypersensitive hauteur, sometimes distrust. As soon as the curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious but bitterly satiric story of a scalawag physician who buys a country practice and makes it pay huge profits on the principle that, if people think they are healthy, it is merely because they don't know what ails them...
...billion more than any year before or since), New England textile rajahs have sat on uneasy thrones. In 1924 many were forced to cut employees' wages 10%. In recent months, barely noticed amid prosperity literature, they have again made cuts. The Pepperell Manufacturing Co. (sheets & pillow cases) of Biddeford, Me., started it early in December with a 10% wage decrease. Quickly followed the Bates and Andrescoggin mills of Lewiston, Me,, and the Edwards mill of Augusta. Then the Amoskeag Co. of Manchester, N. H. (largest textile mill in the world) announced a 10% cut, and the game...