Word: clutter
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When land was sighted, when the bill was signed, everyone expected that ordinary times would end. The decks, already a clutter of unusual activity, would be cleared for action. Even the passengers knew that this was no Caribbean pleasure cruise. They looked at Sailorman Roosevelt, whistling and polishing away so cheerfully, as if they knew that he could wear gold braid and bark commands if he wanted to-as if he might, when the time came. There had been rumors in the First Class that guns were being run out, that there might soon even be a shortage of butter...
...invented by patient, reticent Eugene G. Reising, who started tinkering with firearms in boyhood and has been at it ever since. Gunsmith Reising has designed weapons for many of the big U. S. manufacturers, spent 16 years with Colt, holds some 60 patents and enough marksmanship medals to clutter his home at Hartford, Conn...
...make matters worse, the Commissar manages to sneak in on Lorna's wave length and clutter up the air with Advance Front propaganda. Betimes Lorna squeezes in a few words, but presently one of the Commissar's agents, who has been lurking in the studio doubling as an usher, grabs her and backs out of the studio with Lorna at the point of a gun. Promptly a city-wide search is begun during which Lorna reveals her presence in a flower shop by blinking out a bit of code with the florist's neon lights. Finally released...
...prime favorite with song pluggers, the Waring band has made many tunes go strong, too (Collegiate, In My Gondola, Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More, etc.). The pluggers used to clutter up Fred's Broadway office, but now Fred has a different arrangement. He meets them once a week for lunch in a Broadway Automat cafeteria, talks over their wares, matches them for the check...
...late Editor Ray Long to become Red Book's (later Cosmopolitan's) pride and joy. His illustrations for such fictioneers as Blasco Ibanez, E. M. Hull, Arthur Somers Roche and Somerset Maugham were as exotically escapist as the tales themselves, and his studio became famous for its clutter of authentic props. In 1922 tall, enthusiastic, travel-loving Artist Cornwell went to London to work with Frank Brangwyn, has since incorporated that decorator's style with his own in some of the most splendiferous symbolic murals in the Western Hemisphere-one in the Los Angeles Public Library...