Word: hatbox
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...hypochondriac, has sent for Danny to rebuke him for misbehavior with her maidservant, but before he leaves, his aggressive understanding of her symptoms induces her to hire him as a male nurse and companion. When Danny moves in, the most noteworthy item in his luggage is an old-fashioned hatbox just about big enough to hold a human head. When the corpse the police are looking for is found without one, the suspicions which Danny's over-solicitude for her aunt have aroused in Olivia begin to be a ghastly certainty...
...nearby hotel in which a woman has been sensationally done to death. Dan cajoles old Mrs. Bramson so skilfully that he be comes her constant attendant. Olivia be comes progressively aware that Dan is the hotel murderer, that the slain woman's head is in his battered hatbox, that he is going to kill her aunt. Olivia is also aware that she is falling in love with him. Climax of her disintegration occurs when she claims the sinister box as her own in order to dissuade a Scotland Yarder from opening it. Every possible dramatic drop is squeezed from...
...Roxy contained 3,700 seats (compared to 'the Music Hall's 6,200), the heaviest and largest chandelier in the world (compared to the Music Hall's two longest), an auditorium designed in chaste taste to resemble the inside of a hatbox; a typical Roxy stage show, with a fan dance by Roxyettes...
...decent haircuts he has ever had. Even the mustache that has drooped and wandered where it would for years had been neatly trimmed, sleeked down. The Great Man wore a sack suit which had actually been pressed! His valet hovered in the offing with a hatbox and a suitcase. Out of the box could come a high silk hat, and out of the case a full dress suit. Put these clothes on Briand and- you would have the President-Elect-voilá! It was the valet's great and tragic hour. Afterward Frenchmen cynically said: "Briand's friends...
...former court jeweler of Wilhelm II confessed to the police that the crown was brought to him in a leather hatbox, shortly after its disappearance, by a man who claimed to represent Wilhelm of Doorn. The jeweler was instructed to contract the circumference of the crown. Dutifully he set to work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm...