Word: dressers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York by Mike Moran, Ed's grandpa, as big and rugged as Ed is small and quiet. But it was Mike's son, Eugene F. Moran, 75, chairman of the board and Ed's uncle, who chugged the company into big business. An elegant dresser who shocked tugboaters by carrying a cane, he boasted that his tugs could tow anything anywhere. Said he: "Those big ones of ours could pull the Statue of Liberty down to the South Pole and back...
...everlasting Right Thing he represented. Bob always said and did the right thing. He was Tradition: Yale, Harvard Law, handsome manners, a law career with a junior partnership at the end of a long, hard row. Tom was the new thing, the break with all tradition, the sloppy dresser, the fountain of glib ideas that would soon lift him from an underpaid Columbia instructorship to Washington and eminence as a New Deal speechwriter...
...Fortress, ten miles offshore in the Bay of Biscay, the 90-year-old ex-hero of Verdun is still as crusty as ever. In rugged health he spends his days pondering in justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole which the Marshal is convinced is a peephole. Last month Pétain's jailer added a wicker lounge chair to the meager furnishings, but the prisoner refuses...
...surveyed his full dresser drawers and then his suitcase. He wondered where he was going to put all this stuff. How did he ever get it up three flights? The amount of junk a guy can accumulate...
...murder-suicide of a lonely elderly couple in a Los Angeles hotel room. The cub, Phoebe Millicent Hearst, out on her first gory crime story, stared with elaborate calm at the bodies on the bed. Then she turned away to help brisk Agness Underwood, her tutor, rifle through the dresser drawers for pictures...