Word: pillow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People's Lawyer." When Woodrow Wilson sent Louis Dembitz Brandeis' name to the Senate as a nominee for the Supreme Court in 1916, it caused an uproar over his confirmation which made last summer's disturbance over Hugo Black look like a pillow fight. The Senate's Judiciary Committee wrangled over the Brandeis nomination for four months. From six onetime presidents of the American Bar Association the Committee got a petition stating succinctly that he was "not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court." One of the bar association presidents who signed...
...possible to leave a message with the operator to have her call you at any hour in the morning. The advantages of this system are many. You can not put the telephone under your pillow like an alarm clock, and turn it off and go right back to sleep. You are certain to answer the telephone if you can hear it, for you never can tell what sweet thing might be calling you. And you almost feel as though your dreams had come true when you hear the cheery voice of the operator bidding you good morning...
Gradually his legs grew numb; they were the first to fall asleep. The numbness crept up his body, as ideas--all sick and diseased--ran little circles in his mind. He turned over on his left side; he doubled his legs; he moved his hands under the pillow. He rested. He turned back again on his right side; he crossed his legs; he extended them. His subconscious grasped him, and without recognition he was asleep...
...whole county into a mollycoddle community, the Civil War gave the men of Phinizy County a real outlet. Those who did not fight with Forrest fought with Morgan. Even after the War petered out, some of them had not had their bellyful. When Lafe Potter ran off with Mersery Pillow, five of the Pillow clan went to get her back. When the shooting was over Lafe turned to his bride and said casually: "I got four of the bastards." Said Mersery: "I'm glad...
...only because it is not laid in the deep South but because it has only one Negro character. Most readers will consider that his Hoop Pole Ridgers make up for the loss. Author Bradford swears he has made up the names of all his characters. Mersery Pillow's mother called her that after the planet Mercury. Brigadier-General Bushrod Johnson Potter was what Mersery and Lafe called their firstborn...