Word: storeroomful
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...front was yellow, blue and red. Inside, the woodwork was bleached oak. The walls were pastel blue. The goods were displayed on the counters in grocery-store fashion. In the back was a storeroom. The price was $6,500 for the store (which naturally did not include the building), $3,500 for the stock. In two days Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett sold nine stores...
...bundled out a few paintings each weekend for flattered friends. Value of the stolen art, all of it rejected paintings submitted for the annual Academy show, officials placed at no more than $800. But Cassidy's cuts on the "second and third rate works" in the Academy storeroom had reduced their worth by "thousands of dollars...
...performance seemed doomed when no one would vouch for the $1,500 check even though Mrs. Albion insisted "this is one of the loveliest performances ever given and we want you to see it." Some one suddenly remembered that there was a folding portable organ hidden away in a storeroom. Up onto the stage in answer to a call for volunteers marched Mme Marie Zalipsky...
...White House, keeps an eye on the silver vault: 4) the room where Mrs. Nesbitt, the housekeeper, stores the State table linen in special cupboards, where she interviews tradesmen; 5) the office of Captain Ross T. Mclntire, White House physician, who is really not a servant; 6) the storeroom with shelves full of canned and bottled goods and one corner given over to pheasants, ducks, grouse, woodcock, quail and other game hanging until they become "high" enough for the President's taste (see cut. p. 5); 7) a ''salad room" lined with cupboards and refrigerators and equipped...
...again to buy a funny balloon, the peddler who sells it to him recognizes his whistle, signals a confrère. The confrère bumps into the villain, slaps on his back a chalk M to identify him. The thieves and beggars follow him, corner him in the storeroom of an office building. They take him off to face their kangaroo court in the cellar of a deserted brewery. His psychopathic defense-"You are criminals because you want to be! I am one because I cannot help it!"-is about to fail when the police arrive...