Word: pillowed
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...begins with Greta Garbo dancing, very badly indeed, in leggings and some thing that looks like a pillow on her wiggling rear. The young aviator who has flown to Paris with despatches from Russia sees her, meets her, spends a late evening in her company. The next night he is ordered to return to Russia but by this time Mata Hari finds it expedient to steal some papers from him. To do so, she passes small hours at his quarters, makes him blow out a holy candle burning under the ikon of a madonna. The aviator finally starts back...
...they scamper away from their new spouses, enjoy a truant honeymoon in an Alpine chalet. By the time the deserted and negligible husband and wife arrive at the chalet, the place has been turned into a shambles. The truants have spent the second act in airy lovemaking, flip bickering, pillow-fights, blows. Next morning all four have breakfast together. High words are spoken. Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery exchange glances, sneak out the door together with their luggage...
...delay caused by the Culbertson children was by no means the only one which preceded a bridge match which compares to an ordinary evening at cards as Waterloo compares to a pillow fight. Mrs. Culbertson dropped her glasses, had them stepped on and finally, with the aid of her husband, found another pair in her lingerie drawer. Editor Frank Crownin-shield of Vanity Fair made a radio speech calling attention to Mrs. Culbertson's corsage of orchids. Author Ring Lardner, retained with upwards of 100 less celebrated newshawks and bridge addicts to report the affair, said: "The people...
...pledge-for three months. It lasted for the rest of his life. Employed in a lumberyard, he became known as a quiet, pious man. What his fellows did not know was that he slept nights on a plank covered with a single sheet, a block of wood for his pillow. At 2 a. m. he would arise, pray until 5 a. m., then go to Dublin's Gardiner Street Church to make the Stations of the Cross. Because he wore a long overcoat, other worshippers did not notice that he had slit the knees of his trousers the better...
...wound up with, "Indians impotent; CRIMSON cooney. That will make the score 49 to 0." Then with a complacent smile he pulled the covers back over his head, wrapped his arms about the pillow and went to sleep. It was the soft sleep of victory...