Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsible for much of the greatest in English poetry. But Author Powys, a professional Wild Welshman (and proud of it), has never got his wildness quite under artistic control. In his thefts from Homer, Keats, Joyce Kilmer, the marriage service and Shakespeare, Burglar Powys invariably knocks over the china closet or steps on the cat. The following not untypical sentence should be engraved on the tomb of Krafft-Ebing: "He was witnessing . . . what few men have been privileged to contemplate: namely, the writhings of a lust-demented lady on the breast of a man whose arms were tied behind...
Thanks to almost simultaneous rulings last week by the powers that be in Nassau and New Haven, Princeton men and Yale men can now go to the dogs perfectly legally. For the bottle which has long nestled illicitly in the darkest corner of every good Princetonian's closet can be brought out onto his mantelpiece in safety, and the Elis can sleep peacefully through all their classes...
...based on The New Yorker* sketches and a detective novel by the New York Sun's Dramacritic Richard Lockridge and his wife. The Norths (Albert Hackett & Peggy Conklin) are a nice young Greenwich Village couple who have a nice time until Mr. North opens the living-room closet to get the mixings for a drink and a corpse falls out. This rigid, sudden corpse-fall, the best in many dramatic seasons, is executed by a young actor named Robert Lieb who gets no program credit. Thereafter the Norths and their friends are suspected, and an elderly postman who learns...
...American Federation of Labor has a closet well stocked with skeletons. One of them has recently been rattling the door handle with embarrassing persistence. Last week, to the horror of President William Green, the door flew open...
Died. Courtney Ryley Cooper, 53, ex-circus clown, ex-newspaperman, ex-circus pressagent, G-Manly author (10,000 Public Enemies, Here's to Crime), prolific writer for magazines, radio, screen; by his own hand (hanging); in a Manhattan hotel closet...