Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rogers campaigner went on the air to rattle a few skeletons in the Patterson closet: 1) the left-wing supported candidate was a turncoat Republican; 2) he had been a vociferous isolationist; 3) in 1940 he had called F.D.R. a warmonger...
...Godliness is a first-rate literary essay, overflowing with sanity and bubbling with wit. Its heroes include Moses (whose laws, says Author Reynolds, were based less on divine sanction than on pamphlets issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Health); Elizabethan Sir John Harington, the inventor of the water-closet ("his name [is] writ in water"), and Victorian Sir Edwin Chadwick (he popularized glazed earthenware drains...
Stertz had partitioned off with sleazy grey curtains. The tentlike affair had no win dow, no closet and no furniture but a cot, a straight chair and a rickety table. It cost $6 a week. Betty shared a dirty bathroom with the janitor and six other girls...
Inside the old white doorway the house had been arranged the way F.D.R. had left it for the last time. The clocks were stopped. His clothes, including the navy cape he wore at Yalta, still hung in the closet; his hat & coat were still by the hall door. Odd paraphernalia-bird collections, pictures, a cribbage board-were in their accustomed places. On the table near the mahogany bed in his old room were scattered mysteries and year-old newspapers and magazines.* In his library with the lived-in look were the maps on which he had followed the war-which...
Died. Logan Pearsall Smith, 80, critic and essayist whose ironic, japanned prose* (All Trivia, On Reading Shakespeare) brought him only closet fame; in London. Philadelphian by birth, Londoner by choice, he felicitously chronicled small beer and rusticated in Literature Past, only now & then spoke over his shoulder to Literature Present such querulous words as: Why does Ezra Pound...