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Its home is in Kenosha, where also is the famed bedmaking Simmons Co.

From Time Magazine Archive

The girls went out with torches in their hands, swift at their work of bedmaking; returning they whispered at the lord Odysseus’ shoulder: “Sir, you may come; your bed has been prepared.”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

"They will forgive much to my youth, even if I am put to cooking and bedmaking to-night as punishment," laughed the boy.

From Princess Maritza by Brebner, Percy James

After breakfast she made a brave beginning, only to turn the broom and the bedmaking over to Susan and dawdle about after Paw or celebrate matins in the green aisles of the garden.

From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert

This, so far as "upstairs" goes, really only leaves bedmaking to be done, and a bed does not take five minutes to make.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)