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...solace, just as, for some people, alcohol does. Reports Dr. Keys: "A fairly common experience for us is the wife who finds her husband staying out more and more. He may be interested in another woman, or just like being with the boys. So she fishes around in the cupboard and hauls out a chocolate cake. It's a matter of boredom, and the subconscious feeling that she is entitled to something, because she's being deprived of something else." For the army of compulsive eaters-from the nibblers and the gobblers to the downright gluttons-reducing...
Despite this disdain for modern bureaucratic technique, Andorra's government rocked along smoothly enough until one day in December 1958, when somebody left $168,000-two-thirds of the entire Andorran treasury-lying in a cupboard drawer in the Casa de la Vail. Next day the cupboard was bare. Also missing was Ramon Riberaygua, 36, scion of a leading family and secretary of the Council of the Valleys, who on frequent visits to Spain had developed an un-Andorran taste for luxury. He kept a mistress in Barcelona and enjoyed paying big tips at the Hotel Ritz to have...
...mulled over these matters, reading all available documents and even visiting Greece and Crete for first-hand looks. Early this year he went to Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, of which Sir Arthur had been director, and asked to see his notes. The librarian took him to a basement cupboard where most of the Evans papers were stored. Digging deep, he came upon a ten-volume, richly illustrated daybook giving a meticulous play-by-play account of Sir Arthur's excavation of Knossos. It was written by Duncan Mackenzie, a redhaired Scotsman whom Sir Arthur had hired...
...guidance people will guide our kids back to the academics, and if the counselors will counsel the administrators to put most of the nonacademic pabulum back in the extracurricular cupboard, the pursuit of happiness will take care of itself. Bruises to the ego by way of low marks, poor report cards, etc., prepare our youngsters for real-life bumps and bruises, but a "demanned" man at 30 is a tragic thing to behold...
...with a polar bear rug. a sleigh, and mica hoarfrost. He sometimes wore a white velvet suit and a bunch of violets in the neck of his shirt instead of a cravat. But he did have cravats. 100 of them in "tender pastel shades" that hung in a glass cupboard in his bathroom...