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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doleful | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Millionaires | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...PILLOW-BOOK OF SEI SHONAGON- Translated by Arthur Waley-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). The Tale of Genji, recently done into English, revealed a highly sophisticated civilization in loth Century Japan. Lady Murasaki's novel is fiction glossed with decadent romance, but her accuracy of atmosphere and circumstance is corroborated by this loth Century Japanese diary. Sei Shonagon was in the service of Empress Sadako at the elaborate court of Heian. Not the least of her qualifications for the post was her handwriting-the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Calligraphy | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...tired head with its tossing white mane slumped back on the pillow. "Whatever people may think . . . they must feel this is rather rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Salvation Rift | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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