Word: closetful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prideful parents who remind her of the duty she owes the memory of her sainted forebears. In the meantime, the forebears are busy stealing, seducing, murdering one another right under the modern Barringtons' noses. Finally, not one but two grisly skeletons are discovered in a hidden family closet, the elder Barringtons are crestfallen, the girl gets...
...Bronx, N. Y., Rose McMahon, 14, was given 25?, told that she might go to a cinema. Overjoyed, she danced about, shrilled "Whoopee!" Her somnolent father, Thomas McMahon, bade her be still. Again she crowed. Savage, wrathful, Thomas McMahon sprang up, tripped, fell headlong into a china closet, cut his throat, fractured his skull, died...
...there is the immortal remark of my Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy.* There are many instances of pious precocity- such as that of the unhappy little puritan girl who (so Cotton Mather in his Magnolia tells us, and with evident approval) spent eight hours a day in a dark closet weeping and praying for the forgiveness of her sins...
...first year man at Hanover; he must wear a green skull cap with a white button on top. But he need no longer salute his professors with perfunctory respect, no longer need he wear a coat at all times, no longer must his Coonskin hang idle in his closet; nor must the wary freshman climb into bed of an evening fearing that somewhere within the sheets there lies a two pound flounder; for hazing, too, at Dartmouth has passed in to history...
...been spent in her behalf, bringing the total up to $319,000. The Senate committee, suspicious of such outlay, began its own investigation. While they investigated, Mrs. McCormick's office at Byron, Ill. was broken open and her private files ransacked. A woman was found hiding in the closet of her hotel suite in Chicago after a campaign conference there. Her telephone wires were tapped. She assumed that the Senate investigation was responsible. She marched into the W. C. Dannenberg Detective Agency in Chicago, put down $1,500 as a retainer, hired sleuths to trail Senator...