Word: garrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, after his old-age pension had come in, Adrien Claude paid off his last few tiny debts. "I am too old for Christmas," he told a friend as he gave him the few francs he owed. He went up to his chilly garret apartment, put his cat outside the door, sealed the windows tight and put his shoes by the fireplace, where all good French children put their shoes on Christmas Eve, hoping they will be filled by Father Christmas. Then he lit the stove in the airless room, lay down on the bed and waited for death...
Casino--Presents lots of visible flesh in the persons of Winnie Garret and Lyn Paige...
Home would be a place "where you can see all the treasures of the house at one view ... at once kitchen, pantry, parlor, chamber, storehouse and garret ... A house whose inside is as open and manifest as a bird's nest. . . where to be a guest is to be presented with the freedom of the house, and not to be carefully excluded from seven-eighths of it, shut up in a particular cell and told to make yourself at home there-in solitary confinement...
Back in 1916, while rumaging through an old New England mill garret, Baker Library's librarian Professor Arthur H. Cole came up with bales of ancient financial history which started off one of the country's largest collections of business manuscripts. When George F. Baker presented the Business School with a library eleven years ago, the Manuscript Division was immediately set up to take care of Cole's find (the records of a colonial textile mill) and the other collections that Widener had already accumulated...