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Late yesterday it crawled into a hole on the top of a tenement house inhabited by the Medical School maids, whence it worked its way in between the wall and the plaster. Once it was cornered Dr. Walter shoved a pillow dripping with ether into the hole and at last the mandril gave up the struggle and was retrieved with a boathook amid the applause of all the budding obstetricians...
...WOODEN PILLOW-Carl Fallas- Viking...
...Pearl Buck, the Chinese are akin to Americans, the Japanese to the English. This theory might explain why the U. S. has never taken the Japanese seriously, likes to regard them as a comic-opera race. It might also partly account for the delicate sympathy of The Wooden Pillow, whose author is an Englishman. But even the most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that the land Author...
...other morning he came back from the Crimson building to find everything in the complete chaos he had left it several hours before. Pinned to his pillow was a note, written in large and heavy strokes. It said: "We're not supposed to pick up shoes and stockings and books from the floor or dirty pajamas and bathrobes from the beds if you boys are too lazy to do it yourself. As soon as you come in pick up all the things and put them in the closet right away. Do you hear...
...Japan, China and the Philippines (at the expense of the Philippine Commonwealth), the Vice President, 17 Senators and 29 Representatives with their wives and children entrained for Washington. At Spokane Junketeer Garner, snugly installed in an upper berth, refused to come down for cameramen, bored deeper into his pillow. One canny photographer focused his camera, stood back, ventured : "I still maintain the only way to catch black bass is on a fly." Up popped a grinning Garner. "And I agree with you," said he. "Shoot...