Word: closets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican Government to His Majesty's Government three weeks ago. when Mexico jibed that even great powers like Britain were behind in payment of debts, dragged the skeleton of Britain's $4,000,000,000 War debt to the U. S. out of its seven-year closet. Last week. 37-year-old Conservative M.P. Robert John Graham Boothby, who five months ago accused President Roosevelt of precipitating the current stock-market decline, appealed to the Commons to send a "really authoritative mission" to Washington to negotiate a War debt settlement, "if necessary to restore economic prosperity...
That droning--an airplane? Japs? Germans? Reds? It swells and fades, angry, important, businesslike. Ah, a wasp, or is it a hornet, zooms gracefully through the window and roars headlong into the closet. Sudden silence. Probably sampling the various gravy and beer spots on the Vagabond's suit. That'll hold him for a while--maybe kill him. The Vagabond relaxes: let's see, history review today. Damn, action again. The wasp-hornet breezes out of the closet, squats on the bowl of a pipe, sharpens up his stinger with his hind legs, hums contentedly to himself...
...small Scoutmaster, trooped to the station and got on the Azalea Special. In Charleston, as the guests of the city, they visited the Navy yards, rubbered at beauty queens, went to a ball. At a luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton. Referring to a "misunderstanding between me and my boss" (by whom he meant President Roosevelt) he said: "I sometimes do not agree with my wife. You can understand. . . . But that does not take away my love and affection for this lady...
...front of a camera. In Washington last fortnight, actress and cameraman were ready, but the matron of Friendship House, the charity organization selected, balked. Said she: "Publicity? We couldn't have that!" Said Donor Velez before stalking off irately: "Me geeve my good money in a clothes closet? Nuts...
...examinations, which comes twice a year, is another demand which deserves the attention of librarians now. The constantly changing nomenclature of courses in the various departments has led to mild confusion in the use of the examinations that have been placed on reserve. If some young librarian were to closet himself in the bowels of Widener with an armful of catalogues and emerge sometime before June with an accurate list of what courses used to be and are now, a whole generation of Harvard men would rise up and call him blessed...