Word: drawerfuls
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...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...
...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...