Word: closets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Sims & Wife come back to a closet flat, under the noise of the elevated, where the bathroom door swings open annoyingly, and the Murphy bed clasps catch on blankets. John becomes twice a father and gets an eight dollar raise. John and Mary worry and work; then in a mobbed street a truck crushes the baby, and John, frenzied, tries to stop the city because his child is sick. The acid of the tragedy bites his brain. He loses his job, his work fibre loosens, he is out of step with the crowd. When Mary threatens to leave...
...Mencken, writer, was told indirectly that his influence among the youth of the nation had been hung in a closet. "Even in a freshman class when one ventures a 'Menckenism,' the others smile," said Robert Hillyer, poet, teacher at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., who is going to the Harvard faculty next autumn...
...knew anyone else was there; all were caused much uneasiness by noises of others seeking lost papers, pouncing on each other, shooting, screaming. Members of the cast not on salary included an apparition shooting up through the floor, a spectre over the fireplace, a skeleton jigging in an open closet. Parts of it were fairly funny...
...rooms stand now, traces renfain of much that transpired within them. On the inside of a closet door there is a painting, reported as the work of F. D. Merritt, who lived in the rooms at one time, and later was commissioned by the University to make the portrait of Sopbocles, the eminent Greek professor, which now hangs in the faculty room in University Hall. Men who lived in the rooms 50 years ago have told of a painting in the same room, reputed to have extended all around the walls near the floor, in which the faculty members...
...room to say goodnight, who had often had to quiet a mighty fear by leaving a crack in the door to the lighted hall, listened carefully. Then she said: "You come with me. I'm going to teach you a lesson." She put her small daughter in a closet, closed the door, locked it, listened to her daughter's screams and walked away...