Word: closets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student that I once knew went down South last winter, and at one of the hotels where he was staying, wanted to change some plates from one box to another. This must be done in the dark, there was no closet in the hotel room and so the bright idea occurred to him of spreading out an extra blanket and a rubber water-proof on the bed, and then crawling beneath the bedclothes to shift his plates. The landlady whose suspicion had been roused by the strange actions and apparatus of the photographer, happened to come into the room during...
...plain rope will be furnished each student who desires one, but he will be obliged to keep it constantly attached to a staple in the window and coiled below ready for use. Otherwise the precaution would be almost useless, for the ropes would soon be thrown into some closet or elsewhere, and in time of fire would not be on hand...
...more truth in this criticism than is generally admitted in Cambridge; still the professors have, with but one exception in the whole history of the school, been taken from the ranks of the active profession. The later tendency, however, may be seen in taking Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 'a closet lawyer,' or one who has made the law a study rather than a profession, for a new professorship. This appointment was regarded on all sides as admirable, and great was the disappointment when Professor Holmes was transferred to the Supreme Bench. Judge Holmes is himself a good type...
...kept on, Boxer might wake, and then - but I wasn't going to be balked by a mere piece of mechanism. I threw it into the bed, between the blankets. Clang! swurr! The perspiration stood on my brow; a reckless desperation seized upon me. I hurled it into the closet, and tumbled all my clothes - dress suit and all - down upon it. Spiz! wrurr! like ten thousand furies. Was there no way to stop the cursed thing? I could hear Boxer stirring. There was a movement downstairs. Clang! whirr! clang! I rushed frantically to the window, tore up the sash...
...ghastly skeleton my closet knows...