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...flower-decked room in German Deaconess Hospital, Chicago, lay Frank McErlane, prime Chicago underworldling. Suspended aloft in a stretching apparatus was his bullet-shattered leg. Into his room, when his nurse was absent, suddenly broke two hostile beer gangsters. From under his pillow, Gangster McErlane whipped out a gun, fired five shots. Before they retreated, the beer gangsters put three fresh wounds into their bed-ridden enemy...
Three weeks ago, M. Paul Desotrat, having prepared for bed and put on his embroidered nightshirt, surprised his wife Leontine by placing a large, loaded revolver beneath his pillow...
Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co. ("Pequot" sheets, pillow cases): $545,000 as against...
...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...