Word: closets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vienna have modernized that technique. The new treatment combines the use of a drug called methoxsalen, which is extracted from the Egyptian plant, and an extraordinary high-intensity ultraviolet light. First the dermatologists have the patient swallow methoxsalen pills. Then they stand him in a telephone-booth-size closet lined with 48 of the special ultraviolet tubes. The patient stays in the booth from eight to 30 minutes, depending upon his degree of skin coloration...
...disaster, and ne'er-do-well Son James is planning to marry his father's typist. Upstairs is distraught; downstairs, aghast. Pale green eyes narrowing in her pretty vixen's mask, head Houseparlormaid Rose Buck voices the general anxiety: "A stranger has been in my linen closet. I don't know if I'm still wanted here...
...STILL-UNRELEASED Economics visiting committee report has opened the closet door to the Economics Department and to university education as a whole. The time has come to pull out the skeletons rotting there and give them a proper public burial...
...boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered his coronary thrombosis, Manchester, you can bet, knew what he had for breakfast: "beef bacon, pork sausages, fried mush, and flapjacks." Statistics tumble on the reader's head like the rich chaos from Fibber McGee's closet. Who else would know that the average height of American women increased ½ in. between 1945 and 1954 (from 5 ft. 3½ in. to 5 ft. 4 in.)? Or that they were "being impregnated," in Manchester's phrase once every seven seconds...
...fashion. The Reichenbach Falls death-struggle of the Final Problem has been elevated here to a hellish showdown above a train careening through the Bavarian mountainscape. The Moriarty mystique has been defused until it becomes simply Holmes's refracted trauma at having discovered two skeletons in his father's closet. And the story, with its pivotal heroine, its deferentially anonymous references to European nobility, its global crisis in the offing, and even its fixation on the "points" of a railroad track, emerges as a hybrid of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans...