Word: closetful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vegetable cellar and automatic heating in the basement. Garages were considered standard equipment and a porch was rated high. On the first floor they wanted a den, kitchen, large living room, medium-sized dining room, lavatory. On the second they wanted two double bedrooms, one single, two baths, six closets. Insufficient closet space ranked first as pet peeve against present housing, insufficient electric outlets second. Most desired feature: a fireplace. Most original desire: an aviary...
...else they are in buildings where they get little use. An example of the latter kind is the one in the Indoor Athletic Building, the location of which is known but to a few. The elevator in Lehman Hall, too, manages more or less successfully to look like a closet...
Rich Long Islanders became jittery as the "summer phantom," a daring jewel robber who has baffled police for two years, renewed operations with his usual success. In Mineola Mrs. Clarence Mackay, the onetime Operasinger Anna Case (see col. 2), hid her jewels in the closet, foiled the burglar by leaving exposed an empty case which she found pried open next morning. In Mill Neck, while Mrs. George Bullock entertained guests on her lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley...
...each night he seeks his closet...
...used key to safeguard against idle curiosity. A chosen few were permitted access to the contraption, but even they could find little use for it except in ordering supplies from the more progressive Boston firms then connected. With more use, the locality of the phone was changed to a closet upstairs, accompanied by its lock and key. Finally, is science marched on, the University had three instruments installed on the party line system, one for the Dean, the Bursar, and the News Office...