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Word: closets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nacht" amid giggles at pronunciation. Beacon Hill buys tins of choclate against the evening when bell ringers and choristers will trudge up Chestnut Street. Ministers fitfully page the Bible and leave it open on the desk at the Gospel of St. Luke. Mothers hide electric engines in the clothes closet at night. Children play with electric engines on a hard-wood floor the next afternoon. Motor cars are set out into the up country hoping snow will fly in New Hampshire. In the Middle West small, angular cards with family crests announce small dances, big dinners. A special train slips...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...Open the prayer closet in every home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dying World | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...saved his sister from closet prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hullabaloo | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...customs that have departed, but there are few which bring more sickness to the heart than the passing of Mead. Life today has become an eternal procession of gin bottles and whiskey sours. The decanter has been swept from the side board and the flagon from the wine closet. Men no longer love the good things, they follow after the bitter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/23/1931 | See Source »

Rachael grew pale, wept. Her mother, her face hidden by a shawl, screamed hoarsely and fled the courtroom. Nathan Goldberg sobbed: "She is dead for me. I have nothing to do with her no more. Her three dresses hang in the closet. Tomorrow I burn them and we sit shivah. She is dead from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Corpse Woman | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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