Word: closetful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reservation, kept a houseful of servants, a car and a chauffeur when that luxury was uncommon. In her grandiose moods it was nothing for her to spend $700 for an evening dress, or to buy a dozen hats on one shopping tour. But she was just as likely to closet herself, spend hours reading her Bible or writing voluminous letters crammed with Biblical quotations. On frequent occasions she would stride into the kitchen, undertake to cook a meal on which she would spend as much dramatic energy as if she were singing some new role for thousands of onlookers. Thereafter...
...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...
Byron was no closet theorist. And in Don Juan, as when he fought bodily for the freedom of Greece, he turns persistently for satire on the hypocrisies of the society, politics and literature of his time. Don Juan is not great poetry. "It is...meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything...a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped." But the Vagabond likes it: "...when the old world grows dull, And we are sick of its hack sounds and sights..." 'tis good to turn to tales of adventure and the like. 'Tis good...
...Bishop of Broadminster had not been a reader of mystery stories he would never have guessed, on entering the deserted inn, that a robbery had just taken place there. He would not have been able to find Reginald Owen, Lillian Bond, and Dudley Digges tied in a closet and the stolen jewels in a pewter pot from which he removed them, leaving his visiting card...
...high neck and long sleeves and that she must wear a black veil. Well, I had a black crêpe de Chine dress with long sleeves left over from last winter, which I had had all pressed and cleaned by the tailor, and it was hanging in my closet. I bought a small black felt hat, new black slippers, a small black veil, black hose and black gloves. I packed these things in a sort of 'sacred apart' from my other garments...