Word: pillow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weighs 230 pounds. When he opens the door of the company's offices, his presence is instantly felt throughout the premises. He seldom leaves the office without a briefcase; usually works at home from dinner time to bed time; goes to sleep as soon as his head hits the pillow. His only outside interest is hunting and fishing. He is an active member of a Canadian fishing camp and a hunt club in Georgia. Of his champion setter, Mary Blue, he is particularly proud. Mr. Teagle is one of the few Standard Oil men of whom Sir Henri Deterding approves...
...Suicide: "My eruption is only on the skin but you're sick inside." Other characters who experience a chapter-the-last are: 1) a lady "always wringing something" whom a bull gores; 2) a man who dies of shock when his wife threatens him with a pillow; 3) a doctor who falls into a hole in the ice and dies from exposure rather than arouse anyone; 4) a countrymaid who dies after eating the Sanatorium's canned meat. Norwegian humor and pessimism lend distinction to this bleak novel...
...voice, usually veiled, was as shrill as a doorbell and as ugly as a poor sermon: 'How else can I be when I feel that I am nothing to a man but a means of enjoyment-not a human being, only a pillow...
...airplane swooped down to the field. Out stepped Edward of Wales. Delighted at his presence, no Scout cared that he, Chief Scout of Wales, slept that night in a tent with pillow and mattressed bed, lavatory, boarded flooring...
...quotation for the title page of Sewell Stokes' new book of interviews "Pilloried!" to the effect that "every man in this country should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind...