Word: drawerfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to the Throne. Previous shots of His Majesty had been so notably lugubrious as to start the rumor that "since his father's death, King Edward has never smiled." At least one British weekly took the new pictures last week as text to prove that "top-drawer" Britons decidedly bore Edward VIII, while he visibly expands in such company as that of Mrs. Simpson, "a real wisecracking American...
...River from Port Huron, Mich. Into the shop stepped two holdup men, one small and wizened, the other masked with a black silk handkerchief. Both waved revolvers, made the customers line up face to the wall while the larger bandit climbed the wire partition to the cashier's drawer, scooped up the cash, climbed back again, ordering all the customers to file into the liquor room. What happened next was best described by one Jack Cosley, who had been buying two bottles of wine for his dinner...
...continue to pour from the White House, TIME will report them. Example: Sequel to the vest-stud affair is the well-authenticated report that the President's embarrassment was caused by one of his sons making off with the studs, neglecting to replace them in the Presidential bureau drawer...
Peter Brand was a successful London businessman who had two passions and no other interests: his work and his wife Christina. When his wife died Brand nearly went out of his head with helpless grief. One day he found a packet of her letters in a locked drawer. They were not addressed to anybody, but they were love-letters. He also found an address book. Because he was frightfully in love with his wife and because he knew she had had "artistic" friends, Brand became convinced that she had had a lover. Feeding his suspicions on whiskey and insomnia...
Toby pulled a large scrap book out of a dresser drawer and laughingly revealed clippings of the pictures taken on her recent trip to Cambridge to review the Hasty Pudding chorus. Her comments were enthusiastic. "They were all the grandest bunch of boys," she exclaimed. "The ones I met were all very nice and awfully good looking. They didn't seem at all embarassed to life their skirts for the cameramen when the pictures were taken. I really had a lot of fun and enjoyed every minute of my visit...