Word: closets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banana-shaped Crete, in the centre, belongs to Greece. There in prehistoric times lived the Minotaur and there men fashioned golden goblets of great beauty and invented the water closet. On Crete at present is the summer home and strategic retreat of Eleutherios Venizelos, sly Grand Old Man of Greek politics...
...Grandma's, another crisis occurs. The Wrolf chases Grandma and Red Riding Hood into the closet. He is on the point of breaking down the door when the industrious pig arrives and quickly assembles the equipment called for by the situation-a bag of unpopped corn and a frying pan. He warms the corn and pours it into the rear of the Wolfs baggy trousers. The Wolf, convinced that he is being peppered from the rear by a machine gun, scuttles off. The two frivolous piglets arrive in time to join the celebration at Grandma's cottage...
...estimated at $545.826. Neither Mr. Mackay nor Mr. Flagler felt able to help finance the orchestra this season. Bank loans made it possible. The Leipzig Gcivamlhaits Orchestra is older. *When Toscanini sailed last spring for Europe a little pile of broken spectacles was found in the back of his closet...
...natural reaction from the press and rostrum, so that the air is quivering with an unusually heavy load of resounding phrases and rhythmic sentiments. The preservation of law and order, respect for the customary procedures of justice, condemnation of mob violence, have all been dragged out of the oratorical closet and fitted to the bow. And very rightly, too. These social attitudes are hard to build up and equally hard to hold; they are well worth emphatic support. But a closer examination of Governor Rolph, the man, would have elicited fewer surprised and pompous tut-tuts. Quite simply, the governor...
...Pills & Fruitatives, Father Arthur Hardy, already a social leader of Ottawa, was appointed Speaker of the Canadian Senate by Liberal Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King. This position he filled with apparent success despite his almost total deafness. Not long ago Daughter Mary mistook poison for Fruitatives in her medicine closet and died. Last January Son Fulford Patrick Hardy eloped with a 16-year-old Toronto school girl, and after a wild ride from Toronto to Detroit to Toledo to Crown Point, Ind., finally got married. They separated soon after...