Word: strongboxes
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...When Bertrand died, in 1844, he bequeathed his notebooks of the exile to his daughter Hortense, who in turn entrusted them to a French bureaucrat with orders to publish them 25 years after her death. All in all, it was not until 1946 that the grand marshal's strongbox was finally opened, and his St. Helena papers were laid before the historians...
...Louisiana sheriff grudgingly admitted that he had between "$10,000 and $15,000, mebbe," stashed in his bedroom, protesting, "Lookahere, you're just inviting burglars." Over the denials of New Orleans' Sheriff John Grosch, his ex-wife told Kefauver that Grosch had $150,000 stowed in a strongbox, that panderers and racketeers used to bring the money to the house in bundles of dirty bills...
...novel that Orville Windom's grandchildren find in his strongbox after his death is not a very good novel. In fact, a reader not sharing their family interest might be tempted to say that it is the worst novel he has ever read. It is, however, the sort of novel a distinguished Supreme Court Justice might write. It is an extraordinary mixture of learning and naivete, of self-conscious poeticizing and shrewd observation, with dim characters wandering about in a grey, dreamlike fog, bumping into ghosts bearing the names of historical personages...
...Cowles' strongbox held $40 in cash and, what he termed, "a great many valuable papers...
Three years ago Phoenix became interested in Loft, Inc., a $10,000,000 Manhattan candy-&-restaurant chain. It lent Loft some $600,000. It also dug into its strongbox for collateral on which Loft borrowed another $400,000 in bank loans, further backed up by Phoenix' endorsement. For such help in a crisis Phoenix got options on 300,000 shares of Loft at $1.50, on 200,000 shares additional at $2. But since Loft had lost money every year since 1934 this did not look like too promising an investment. Last year Loft stock got down...