Word: closets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terror of darkness is the first and so the deepest of all fears. It was a thing that made a little three-year-old girl in Juliette, Ga., lie shaking in bed at night, kept awake by a troop of crying phantoms and wild dreadful faces. Every closet was to her a nest of horrors; great cats crouched on the shelves, snakes writhed among the shoes on the floor; if you put your ear to the keyhole when the door was shut, you could hear them mewing and hissing, but no matter how suddenly you looked in, the wise, hungry...
...long time this cabinet was lost. Then one day James Boswell's great-great-grandson, James Boswell Talbot, Sixth Baron Talbot de Malahide, visited his Scottish estates, the Castle of Auchinleck. Rummaging in a closet, his hand found a peculiar trunklike cabinet, made of a dark and heavy wood. In its drawers and cubbyholes there were a lot of old papers, so soft they made no noise when Lord Talbot shuffled them together and lifted them out of the box. Very gently, burning with excitement as if he had been touching gold, Lord Talbot laid them on a desk. Then...
...interest in athletics than he did in studies or in social activities. He was indifferent even to dress, favored $2.50 hats, and ready-made suits. When the Perroquet de Paris was opened to the elite of Manhattan's night life, Roger Kahn left his expensive tuxedos hanging in the closet, wore a $40 suit bought the day before from Brill Bros. Of course, he was only a boy then?19. Now, almost 20, he is growing more debonair. He brought back to the U. S. this summer 50 tailored suits, untold neckties, shoes, hats, from London. He has even been...
Last week, however, his bones were discovered in the closet where Indiana keeps its political skeletons, were dragged out and picked over. For he became Exhibit A in the expose of Indiana politics which Mr. Stephenson (in jail since April 1925 for murder) last fortnight began (TIME, July 18). Mr. Stephenson had begun his expose by confiding to Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy many of the deeds performed during his (Mr. Stephenson's) tenure of office as Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan which then (1924) constituted the "invisible government" of Indiana. Last week Mr. Stephenson took...
David Lloyd George was dining at the Savoy. His white Welsh mustache trembled slightly as he masticated a chop. In his pocket was an ordinary overcoat check; but the attendant, awed, had hung the coat in a closet distinct from the common coatroom...