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Ponderous, squat, ungainly were the trunks of the 1890's, trunks that grandfather and grandmother packed, trunks that still repose in many a U. S. attic. Women packed them with patient art, men loaded them with chaotic haste; bent backs and weary arms accompanied their movement. Travelers, arriving at destinations, had first to unpack trunks, lest folded garments acquire permanent wrinkles...
...reptile, known as a Ptesandon, was of that species which frequented Kansas about 60,000,000 years ago. It was brought to the museum in 1883, where it was put away in the attic still embedded in the rock, and its presence forgotten. In an extensive cleaning-up last summer the specimen was found again and proved to be of rare size and completeness...
...greatest of all the old still active fighters went last week to Lou Stillman's gymnasium in Manhattan to have a work out. Lou Stillman's gym is an attic, stuffed with smoke and people ; the people, when this fighter entered, looked with awe on his fat stomach and his burly arms...
...poor old gentleman who symbolizes the G. O. P. had to go up and hide away the full dinner pail. He worked it until he had it all worn out and when this campaign opened up he quietly went up into the attic and had a little piece of chamois cloth and was getting ready to polish it all up and see if he could not pass it around again...
Late Georgian. Menella's children by Jamie were twins. Ludovic married sensibly enough; but Isabella roved the woods, or sought out her brother's foils in the attic, and spent hours "fencing with unstable shadows cast by the candles that she lit in the dusk." When Ludovic killed her lover, a beautiful and outcast Jew, Isabella in turn killed her brother, and fled with a gypsyman to whom she bore seven sons and a daughter...