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There was a cupboard in the room whose unknown contents terrified Peter more than the blows. When he said: "I have nothing to confess," they opened its doors (there was a typed inventory of its contents on the inside of the door) and brought out implements of leather and steel, neatly hung on hooks. Stripped, he was bent over a table, his head down, his chin pressed against the rough wooden board smelling of carbolic soap. The first three strokes seemed to split his body in two. "Each new stroke lit up an electric bulb behind his eyeballs and caused...
...citizens admitted having more than the permitted five packages of 250-odd point-rationed frozen, canned and dried foods. Many of the rest overlooked what every grocer knew: that the previous month's buying spree had loaded many a cupboard full up. Only one person in a thousand could remember how much coffee he had three months earlier or think of any reason at all why OPA now should hand out a maddening questionnaire with a naive entry: "Pounds of coffee owned on November 28, 1942, minus 1 pound for each person included in this Declaration whose...
Thanks to the Nazis, Denmark was bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Several days before the 30th anniversary of his accession to the throne, King Christian X ruled that no celebrations be held in his honor. In the once dairy-rich country there was still some milk- but most of it was skimmed. Eggs, butter and bacon, onetime Danish standbys, were scarce as hens' teeth. Thousands of Danes had been exiled to enforced labor in Germany. Two years of German domination had really brought the New Order to Denmark...
...from his housing experts over a simple little idea of his own. Brooding over the problem of decently but inexpensively housing the thousands of Washington working girls, the President recalled how he had lived as a schoolboy at Groton-in cubicles with 8-ft. partitions, a bed, bureau, curtained cupboard, with a common washroom down the hall, with showers and toilets and 20 tin basins and 20 tooth-mugs in a row. This recollection looked good to the President. Said he: Why not build such dormitories smack on Washington's beautiful Mall, a 13-block-long stretch of greensward...
...because of its nightmare touches. The conspirators blew open the door of the Palace with a dynamite cartridge which fused the electric lights, and they stumbled about blaspheming in the darkness, passing into a frenzy of cruelty that was half terror. The King and Queen hid in a secret cupboard in their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers grow cold, then warm, then cold again, then warm, and at last hot, and burning hot. The weakly King was hard to kill: when they threw him from the balcony they thought him doubly dead from bullet wounds and sword...