Word: dresser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving a little. I reached over the bed and shot him again. I don't know how many times I shot my sister. I dragged my mother into a bedroom and closed the door. I found the keys to the car in a jewel box on the dresser...
...cutting" may bring his note that an editor "deserves the Distinguished Service Medal." Especially pleased with Rover Miller, author of an article on needless tonsillectomies, he wrote her: "If you ever have your tonsils taken out, can I have them in a bottle to keep on my dresser? I could even love them after your latest wonderful article...
...cheering stadium receded into the shadows above the dresser, and then disappeared; the Band gave way to the sound of subway trains shunting around the yards...
...minute span of Two on the Aisle, he sweats through 19 costume changes. Aided by his dresser and three assistants, who stand just inside the curtain and peel costumes from him in onion-like layers, he gives a dizzying exhibition of that half-forgotten art, the quick change. He leaves the footlights as Captain Universe, a panicky Superman who wears an aerial on his head, slips out through the curtain again as a clown, dives back to reappear almost instantly as a cross-eyed gaucho, and then-encased in a gown which is snapped around him by a body-hugging...
...behind him, and a grandfather clock ticks away. He stays up till 3 or 4 a.m. reading field reports, then issues his orders for the next day and turns in. He is up again at 10 or 11, after receiving advisers while still in bed. He is a meticulous dresser (his clothes come from Lanvin in Paris), and he has been known to fire a stenographer with the remark: "You don't know how to dress, Miss, and your hair is dirty." Says one newsman who has seen him at work in Indo-China: "Around him all women must...