Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helps decode messages. Some errand may take him to the Foreign Minister, less frequently to the Finance Minister, very seldom to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In the evening he occasionally gives a stag dinner (his wife and two children live in Peking), otherwise reads something light and goes to bed-sometimes to be wakened in the middle of the night by an air raid alarm. The Embassy has a stout dugout, but a direct hit would demolish it, Nelson Johnson, and U. S.-Japanese relations...
...have them thoroughly examined by a doctor. Then she massages and applies hot pads to their tensest muscles. Because relaxing is largely psychological, Dr. Rathbone puts her pupils through a course in learning how to control their muscles, cultivating the will to relax. When they go to bed, she advises them, they must repeat to themselves: "I will not permit the tensions that have beset me during the day to return...
...relieve insomnia, go to bed an hour earlier than usual each night for two weeks, obliterate worries with pleasant thoughts of childhood...
...From a lady in Hamilton, Ohio: ". . . this glittering coruscation of impalpable sound. ... I fled to my bed determined that I should never again be so vulnerable to such perfection. I didn't have the strength to dance, or laugh, or cry, or shout...
...Jean Tousseul's Jean Clarambaux (Lippincott, $3) is a long, gentle, nostalgic, sentimental novel of life in a Belgian hamlet before and during the German occupation of 1914-18. Though written with no little art, it has the warm, excessive, disconcerting and soporific sweetness of a bottomless feather bed...