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...drawn into the family affairs; the memory of her own troubles begins to fade. When grandmother dies, her own troubles look unreal. Geoffrey comes out for the funeral. He has tried to cure his marital troubles by an affair with voluptuous Nina. After his night of infidelity he woke up with a headache like a hangover. By that token he knows his wife is the Woman in the world for him. Heat Lightning is the Book-of-the-Month Club's April choice...
When the officers woke up it was long past noon, but nobody had yet been shot. Aprista Party members were deluging the Government with telegrams demanding clemency. Telegraphed the Aprista Party Leader...
When Peter Karmel crashed his airplane and lost his arm in Galicia he woke up in the dismal fairyland of his cracked brain. His head hummed like a drunken beehive, but above that noise he heard the menacing approach of a blind man's tapping stick, saw visions of a beautiful porcelain woman who comforted him. To flee the blind man he hides away in an obscure hotel in Budapest, drinks brandy by the bottle, neat. Finally his longing for the porcelain woman overcomes his terror of the blind man. He leaves the hotel to try to find...
...compressed air, he was eager to get home and tidy up the apartment to greet his wife next day when she returned from the hospital with their new baby. He hurried through the decompression chambers, found himself in normal air pressure too soon. At 3 a. m. he woke up choking, writhing with "the bends." Gasping for air, he staggered to a window, threw himself against the pane, fell to the sidewalk three stories below. His wife & baby remained in one hospital and Cheerful Tom Nestor was taken to another with a broken hip, several broken ribs, to recover from...
...visiting U. S. pastor who called Heaven to witness that the U. S. is profoundly peaceful, Borodin replied: "The people of America are very easily led. They had no notion of going into the World War, but imperceptibly their leaders carried them on until one morning they woke...