Word: closeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student had written to Fr. Burke to apologize for dressing in a Bishop's costume at the game and "blessing" the Harvard team at halftime, after University officials expressed alarm and Dean Monro discovered the costume in his closet...
Most of his fellow New Yorkers com plain about crime. Charlie DiMaggio, 62, does something about it. Owner of a closet-sized grocery store ,on Lexington Avenue just south of Spanish Harlem, DiMaggio has been the victim of 26 holdups in 20 years. He has thwarted the bandits 16 times, shot four robbers, and helped arrest twelve others. And that, as Cousin Joe, the erstwhile Yankee Clipper would agree, is pretty good clipping. Last week three armed Negroes walked into the store for Holdup No. 26. Shoving Charlie into the wash room, they scooped $300 from the cash register...
...mysticism met in the Hesse household and merged in the boy's imagination. Religion and poetry were his earliest passions, and poetry prevailed. At 14, Hesse dropped out of theological seminary; at 21, he published his first book of verse. In the next 15 years he achieved some closet reputation as a man who had little to say but said it exquisitely...
...aide, Mrs. Lucianne Cummings, a blonde Washington public-relations consultant, stuffed the letter with a bunch of campaign souvenirs into a closet. Coming across it a few months ago and realizing the value of a letter between a once and a present First Lady, she turned it over to Manhattan Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton to sell at auction. A year ago, Hamilton had sold a particularly poignant letter from Jackie to an unknown Englishman for a record $3,000; he thought this one would bring at least...
...potatoes was such a delightful new experience that now she could not get enough of it. Some had never had a bed to call their own, others had never slept on sheets, and some wept with pleasure on seeing their bedrooms. Each girl has two roommates and a bed, closet and dresser to herself...