Word: drawerfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortunately, in the U. S. treasury, as in an old-fashioned attic, valuable relics may be misplaced but rarely lost. Last week, after three days' frantic search, the Alaskan check turned up in a musty drawer of the General" Accounting Office where it had reposed since 1921. By this time, the House had passed Delegate Dimond's bill and it had gone to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The Senate Committee decided that, since the check, a piece of national property, was so easily lost, it would be better to send a photostatic copy...
...grand canyon, sometimes. Until a day or two ago we didn't realize how ripe and mellow, free from care and worry, three years and odd months at Harvard can make a fellow. With our thesis half completed and a ticket on the Monarch of Bermuda in the drawer, life was nothing but a brave new world of dreams. Yet suddenly a tale of horror struck a note of tragedy into our symphony of pleasure, stark tragedy crashed mightily about our cars...
...begin, "Viewed Without Alarm" does not devote every page to interviews with Nazi bigwigs or Communist bureaucrats; nor does it attempt to count the number of guns in the Italian navy or the execution decrees in Stalin's desk drawer. It is a series of highly poignant snapshots of life on the Continent: conversations with young Russians, glimpses of a tavern in southern England, military maneuvers at Bad Nauheim. From these extremely natural sources uncovered through casual travel and occasional chatting Mr. Millis has distilled a convincing analysis of the various national points of view...
...Best sequence in the picture comes when Wild Bill has killed Lattimer and rounded up his gang. To pass the time until the cavalry arrives he starts a poker game. The man behind the bar, a cringing knave outstandingly played by Porter Hall finds a gun in a drawer. It takes him half the sequence to get nerve enough to shoot Bill Hickok in the back. Finally he does...
...eyrie was a Renaissance castle on noisy Washington Street in Brooklyn's "downtown" section, a half mile from Henry Ward Beecher's old Plymouth Church on Orange Street and the "Heights," where some of the borough's first families still reside. Conservative organ of the top-drawer element in a conservative city not unlike Boston or Baltimore, the Eagle rightly regarded itself as one of the country's most influential papers...