Word: bedridden
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...labor everywhere. was Mother Jones's birthday. This year she was 100. Many a U. S. Laborite last week planned to celebrate May Day by marching to a plain white two-story frame house just off the road at Silver Spring, Md. (Washington suburb) where "Mother" Jones lay bedridden, boisterous. Among her pillows in the friendly home of Walter Burgess, she was ready for Death. She had arranged for her high requiem mass at St. Gabriel's Church in Washington, her interment at Mt. Olive, Ill. Still matriarchal, still organ-voiced, she said as her great anniversary approached...
...gifts from those who wished to be remembered in his will, has been a staple of the Theatre Guild both in Manhattan and on the road. The Guild now brings it back to Manhattan, excellently played by a cast including Earle Larimore as the servant Mosca who outfoxed his bedridden master...
...Thamesside dockyard where a cruiser is being launched. It is May, 1900; the Boer War is on. The first character in the book is Bolt, a loud dockyard foreman, a Kiplingesque sort of character, a type of England in her glory. At the end he is a doubtful, silent, bedridden old man. After the launching of the cruiser, the story shifts to the shop of philosophical Tobacconist Jones. In Jones's shop gathers a mixed crowd of intellects: Langham, the brilliant Radical politician, pro-Boer now, anti-German later; Talbot the East End vicar, gently skeptical of the ways...
...record tells of a bedridden observer who watched the futile efforts of one of the insects to climb upon the bed from the floor. At length the bug crawled up the wall, moved out across the ceiling and dropped on its destination...
There is a Mack Sennett comedy of the soil, whose continuity appears to have been written by Rabelais, with gags by the author of the travelling salesman joke. It is thoroughly bedridden. It's a talkie...