Word: bedfellows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Frey of the Metal Trades Department dwelt particularly on C. I. O. as a bedfellow of communism. So doing he provoked Charles P. Howard, who is secretary of C. I. O. but was present in Cincinnati because his union, the Typographers, still belongs to A. F. of L. Said Mr. Howard bitterly...
...scheming grows more satanic. With a gloomy consciousness that he has done all he can, Elvira's husband tires of her vacillations, takes himself back to England. Elvira settles herself to lie on the bed she has made, then suddenly realizes that Oliver is an inconstant bedfellow, goes home to her husband after all. When Oliver decides he is through with Paris too, Marpurgo encourages his departure, for more reasons than one. On the boat train Oliver, by now an incorrigible ladies' man, meets another girl...
...hard worker. She liked men's company, the more Rabelaisian the better, but the idea of marriage horrified her. When she came to the throne after her father's death, she let it be clearly understood that there never would be a prince consort. Her bedfellow was a lady-in-waiting. Personally popular with her subjects, she soon got into hot water because she imported foreign intellectuals (notably Descartes) to liven up the heavy Scandinavian atmosphere. When she decided that she had had enough of being ruler, she amazed Europe by abdicating, going to Rome to live. There...
...deprecates any publicity attaching to his revelation, and probably expected none when he propounded it; the papers and the public have refused to let him go down unsung. His proposition has that indefinable quality of esoteric complexity which endears itself to the nation, provided only that it be the bedfellow of science...