Word: closet
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...Democratic National Committee. He has never worn his piety on his sleeve, and even in an age of publicity, an archbishop's devotional life is largely a personal matter between him and his God. His rule has been the Biblical injunction: ". . . When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and -when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret... ." (Matthew...
Tobacco Scions. There is nothing genteel about the skeletons in Written on the Wind, and they never stay in the closet. They include second and third generations of a multimillionaire tobacco family, the Whitfields. Their native habitat (at Winton, N.C.) is a vast Gothic architectural horror built by the founder of the family fortune. Their pathological capers later take them to Manhattan, Florida and Europe. Some readers may think that they can trace an allusion, in the heir in this novel, to Zachary Smith Reynolds (of the Tobacco Reynoldses), whose wife, Libby Holman, was exonerated after his death by shooting...
Martha Raye, hippo-mouthed comedienne, was victimized by a busy Manhattan jewel thief who was cleaning up in plushier neighborhoods. (Voice of the Turtle Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr.'s wife was already out $20,000 worth.) Comedienne Raye, who opened her closet and found her jewel box empty, set her loss at $15,000. Among the 16 whim whams missing: 1) a diamond-&-ruby ring (one kite diamond, one 32-karat diamond, 28 bluewhite diamonds, four rubies), 2) a pair of earrings (34 white diamonds, eight baguette diamonds, 3) a diamond-&-topaz ring (18 pearl-shaped diamonds...
...Fibber McGee's cluttered closet is one of the best known. NBC's Tom Horan of Chicago invented it. He used a set of studio chairs resembling a back stoop, piled each step high with old shoes, bowling pins, tennis rackets, bird cages, roller skates, broken dishes and iron scraps...
...Tuckahoe, Westchester County suburb of New York City, there were strange goings-on at the high school. On Monday morning, pupils reporting for home-economics class, in a model apartment on the first floor, discovered two open suitcases on the studio couch, a pair of trousers in a closet, a rich smell of coffee...