Word: closet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lowell House after the Spring Formal Friday night resulting in the greatest library job since Snooperman ran rampant last spring. Not until night watchman Bill Graney received an anonymous phone call last evening was the picture of President-emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, ordinarily over the fireplace, found in the closet of an unnamed tutor...
...Miss Chaney protested last week that, although she had been working for OCD for two months, she had not yet had any pay, would stand by OCD, regardless. "They can't dig any skeletons out of my closet," said she. One thing dug out of Mayris' closet was a scheme for setting up a physical-fitness assembly line: children were to move down the line under their own power, to be serviced every twelve feet by an instructor in "breathing, marching and relaxing...
...footlights, both in comedy and tragedy. Carrying on in the debonair fashion set by "Arsenic and Old Lace," the play "Mr. and Mrs. North," deals with the more hilarious aspects of homicide. A very dead and bloody corpse is discovered keeping company with the scotch bottles in the liquor closet. Naturally its unwilling hosts, the Norths, are suspected, as is their small group of friends. Among these are such sinister characters as the dead man's wife and her lover as well as the dead man's mistress and her husband. The rest of the cast is made...
...during war's duration? The Smith bill, the club which Congress had fashioned to keep labor in good order, had threatened before war came to bring on a labor blowup. Mr. Roosevelt now had another scheme. At his signal, Administration leaders quietly put the bill away in a closet. Not letting labor forget that the bill was still handy and could be broken out again at a moment's notice, the President suggested that labor and management get together, decide among themselves how to keep the peace...
...Shepard Traube in association with Alexander H. Cohen) gave Broadway its first real shudders in almost two years. Author Hamilton, who raised audiences' hackles with his Rope's End in 1929, can still summon up goosebumps. No crude spook or corpse melodrama, no bloody bundle of closet horrors, Angel Street, which played in London under the title Gaslight, has the good old English knack of brewing a thriller in a teacup, of making a Victorian parlor more menacing than an opium den, of giving to gaitered footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth. This spooky tale of London...