Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carpenters have constructed a bulletin board for all house notices and are now working on a linen closet for the kitchen. No traces of lines have appeared as yet except for the weekly Gordon Supply bedding deliveries...
...Closet. Politicians have always been bought and controlled in Japan; but no prewar scandals revealed such spectacular corruption as the Showa Denko case. Japanese newspaper readers began to laugh when cops flushed Banboku Ono, secretary general of the Democratic Liberal party, out of a linen closet in an inn in Kyoto where he was in hiding. They laughed again when Cabinet Member Takeo Kurusu rushed into print with an announcement that he, personally, was not involved with Showa Denko. Next week government agents raided Kurusu's home and slapped him into Kosuge...
...center will contain both single and double rooms. The singles will be 9 by 13 fact and equipped with desk, desk-chair, couch-bed, dresser closet and bookshelf. The doubles will be 18 by 13 feet, and will be designed so that they can be diviled by a curtain for privacy...
...deluged by complaints about the messy living quarters, lack of closet space, and the inavailability of trunks which have been stacked in the basement of Yard halls...
...Although I cannot clip coupons with TIME'S typical male reader, I can boast of a clothes closet just as crowded...