Word: closets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked two of Nadir's nephews from his hostages, slew them and piled their bodies in a palace closet. When Nadir had scattered Water Boy's army, he strangled him in chains. It was a fine point whether Uncle Nadir ought to give the throne back to Nephew Amanullah, still hiding in Rome. A few rabble-shouts persuaded Nadir to take it for himself. Though beset by the plots...
...linen closet will be sacrificed this week because the Lowell House Committee needs permanent quarters...
...where the Cézannes are kept. Frustrated in this he generally dashes for the dining room and claws angry gashes in the leather seats of the ponderous Empire furniture. Fifi Vollard does not mind for he has two dining rooms, one to exhibit his furniture and another smaller closet off the kitchen where he is apt to retire and munch raw peaches while would-be purchasers are left alone in a silent house full of pictures...
...hang a pair of European Court Fans; on a window seat, in the sun, sparkles a jewel handled Moorish Scimitar; and over there, in a glass case, is a death mask of Oliver Cromwell, Upstairs are the proud portraits of Cromwell and the collection of tools. In some dark closet hangs the Frock Coat, which the Professor will don each Sunday teatime...
MURDERS AT SCANDAL HOUSE- Peter Hunt - Appleton-Century ($2). There were too many members of the ill-assorted family, when they gathered to lock a skeleton more firmly in a closet; they began to die, one by one. The 'legger-undertaker had five corpses to lay out before an easy-going gentleman-policeman really laid the ghost...