Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospital room in little Lafayette, Ala. one day last week a fleshy, feverish old man lay still in the grip of lobar pneumonia. Having passed through several days of delirium, he did not know what day it was and he was too tired to ask. That was just as well. It was Election Day, and no one wanted to tell J. Thomas Heflin that at 68 he had again lost his chance to get back into the U. S. Senate...
...temporary failure of her radio the Regina Maria was unmercifully buffeted. Two feet of water flooded the stateroom of the Crown Prince, and the violent wind snapped off one of the destroyer's masts., For 36 hours the Regina Maria bucked and plunged, water even in her engine room, spray frozen on her. Her crew got neither food nor sleep. "Can't I do something to help?" asked the nauseated Crown Prince...
...wallet, containing cards of identification, was found in his room but the money had been removed...
...burst into the room after an exhilarating dash from Widener, where the books he wanted seemed to mean nothing to the catalogue cards but "Soc Lib," and coasted to a stop in front of an expensive window. As far as the eye could see, the panorama spelled knowledge. "Ah, at home with the Gods of Wisdom." he sighed as the gazed from one end to the other of the second floor of President Conant's house...
...other end of the room was a table with many extra seats to accommodate one's hat, cost, and feet. While the Vagabond stood planning his prospective posture, he found that across from him was a Radcliffe girl who looked almost beautiful. He promptly sat down and nonchalantly fingered the pages of his book, noticing at the same taking voluminous notes, that she really was beautiful, and that he initials were "J> P." He pretended to be working by flipping a page over now and then, but soon gave up and said in a send-bored voice, "Going into...