Word: crates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Angel. Gitte, Sigrid told Robert, was very anxious to ship a crate full of "fragile personal belongings" to her fiancé in Manhattan. Would Robert be an angel and take it to the airport for her? Carefully Robert set the box on a jeep and pocketed a cablegram written out by Sigrid: "Send $150 immediately and you will see me soon. Gitte." But the cable office would not send it unless Siedentopf signed it with his own name...
Buzz Off. In Atlanta, a swarm of bees, settled in a packing crate at an ordnance depot, were quickly sold (for $2.05) as surplus property...
...instructions, buyers were not told the stuff was hers. (Why? Answered the silent Swede's brother Sven, who engineered the auction: "I have found it best for me never to answer questions.") Total take: about $10,000. (Storage bill: $3,000.) Sample price: $8.35, for a crate full of Garbo dolls and doll furniture...
While the Admiral listed the expedition's training, mapping and scientific accomplishments, sailors and river police in motor boats began a wild pursuit of eight penguins that had dashed into the Potomac when their crate hit the dock and split open. At nightfall, three penguins were still at large...
Each morning Shafer climbs to his "city news bureau" in a loft over Wittenberg's newsstand. The floor is littered with years of overflow from his orange-crate "files," the whole scene dominated by a huge stove and a headless, female cigar-store Indian. There Chet pecks out "Doings," a paragraph of gossip for the local Commercial, and "straight stuff" for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Making his rounds, Chet is easy to spot: in winter by his coonskin hat and wolf coat, in summer by a flat fedora which he once had insured against fire, theft and collision...