Word: dressere
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...center will contain both single and double rooms. The singles will be 9 by 13 fact and equipped with desk, desk-chair, couch-bed, dresser closet and bookshelf. The doubles will be 18 by 13 feet, and will be designed so that they can be diviled by a curtain for privacy...
...take long for Joe, the pea-green rookie, to outshine Vince and the other Seals. In his first full season (1933) he smashed the Pacific Coast League record by hitting safely in 61 consecutive games. He struck up a friendship with the team's first baseman, a fancy dresser and wisecracker, aped his dress and manners. From the Seals' trainer, an oldtime featherweight boxer, he soaked up fancy words. For a while, his stock reply to anyone asking him where he had been was: "Oh, I've been nonchalantly meandering down the pike...
...afternoon last week, Porter neatly packed his three bags. In one he put his will, written in the hotel room four days before and naming Mrs. Patterson's housekeeper his executrix. He laid his hat, watch and glasses on the dresser. Shortly afterwards, his body crashed through the screen of an open window of his room and landed on the sidewalk, six floors below...
Once Upon a Time. In Belton, Mont., a bear entered Jean Sullivan's house and 1) slept in his bed, 2) pulled out his dresser drawers, 3) raided the pantry, 4) carried out the bedding, 5) hung the curtains on a tree...
Things are impulsive merely because they have been left more or less to their own devices. The collar button simply decides the floor looks more comfortable than the dresser, and is a little bewildered when somebody starts yelling at it. Pretty soon he gets tired of being kicked around, and creeps into the farthest corner...