Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend, the late Multimillionaire Peter A. B. Widener, Johnson concentrated on completeness and comprehensiveness. In a massive, Edwardian mansion on South Broad Street, Collector Johnson plastered walls from floor to ceiling with gilt-framed masterpieces. Finally strapped for space, he had to hang his canvases in bathrooms and inside closet doors. He even hung some on the foot...
...first floor, the large room was used for elementary chemistry courses, and it was during an experiment in one of these that a student named Charles William Eliot, Harvard's future President, was nearly killed. The professor put some explosive material in an iron pot, stood behind a closet door, and touched it off with a torch fastened on the end of a long pole. The result drove a large piece of the pot past Eliot's arm, and into the back of the wooden bench on which he was sitting...
...there was little doubt that the President had his Dutch up at last when he yanked out one of the biggest clubs in his closet. As 2,000 C.I.O. workers walked out of the Aluminum Co. of America plant in Cleveland, an order came from Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, deputy director of the draft, that henceforth "the citizen who has been deferred because of the job he is performing in the national defense program cannot expect to retain the status of deferment when he ceases to work on the job for which he was deferred." In World...
...Abbott No. 1 won an expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from bad to worse. Publisher Abbott died. Mrs. Abbott No. 2 stepped in. The nephew was fired. Thereupon he and his aunt started digging in the closet for a skeleton...
Scientific Experiment. In Long Beach, Calif., a 33-year-old chiropractor named Wilfred C. Blair locked himself in a closet with a 25-lb. cake of dry ice. Aim: a "scientific experiment" with carbon dioxide. As the ice melted, it gave off C02 fumes. In 20 minutes, the chiropractor was dead. Next to his body police found a notebook containing his pulse, temperature and respiration record...