Word: pillowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lipstick on the Pillow. In 1947 a woman in a midtown hotel room appeared to have died in her sleep about 24 hours earlier. Dr. Milton Helpern, deputy chief examiner, noted small hemorrhages on the eyeballs, suggesting suffocation. But she was lying face up. Then he saw that a smear on the pillow matched the lipstick she was wearing. That clinched his suspicion. Detectives tracked down her estranged husband, and he confessed having strangled his wife. If the body had been moved, Dr. Helpern would have missed the telltale clue...
...unshaven soldier lies back on his pillow and exercises his good right arm. Every so often he twitches his left shoulder too, to exercise it, but where his left arm should be there is a white bandaged pouch like a hornets' nest taped to his body. This foreign legionnaire's left arm was amputated on the battlefield at Dienbienphu...
...cream in a smile . . . the most damned soul I ever met." They shared rooms in an old tower outside Dublin until Gogarty upset the mutual trust one dark night by firing a revolver into a pile of saucepans that hung above the sleeping poet's pillow. In so far as he ever does, Gogarty blames himself for not having noted at the time "the latent lunacy" of his pistol-shy pal; but he explains that "it is one thing to study lunacy in an asylum, another . . . to recognize it in a friend...
...coffee and oatmeal, "with lots of sugar-that's for vitality." Her dinners are hearty. "Good eatin's and good keepin's" is Grandma's recipe for health. At 10 o'clock Grandma is ready for bed: "The minute my head hits the pillow I'm dead to the world." She sleeps on an old feather tick under an electric blanket...
...less talented comrades (see below). The hit of the show was The Dying Hero, an effectively gloomy oil of a man dying on a hospital bed. Although the central figure is realistically proletarian, Guttuso rose above the level of flat political posters with his geometric handling of pillow and sheets, skillfully done in shades of off-white against a violently contrasting red drapery...