Word: trunked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caches. In Chillicothe, Mo., a nervous second-hand dealer looked up the car he'd sold six days before, opened the trunk, pulled out $2,000, explained to the new owner: "That was my bank-I forgot." Near Chicago, Ralph Dean wiggled his big toe while taking a bus ride, felt far too comfortable, frantically remembered the four $20 bills he was saving; cops got his money back from the cobbler who had put new heels on Dean's shoes...
...Trick. In Seattle, Duke, a hunting dog who for years had ridden in the trunk of Frank Delappe's old car, watched his master lift the hood of a 1947 Studebaker, jumped...
Boozehound. In Brookline, Mass., Tiger, a two-year-old beagle, accidentally locked in an auto trunk for 21 days, survived, regained twelve lost pounds on a diet of eggnog...
...Shuberts brought Allen to Broadway in The Passing Show of 1922. From then until 1928, Fred was never out of a Broadway show. But for all those years, convinced that the little juggler from Boston would never last in the big time, he never even unpacked his trunk. In 1928, feeling more secure, he married Portland, a chorine in George White's Scandals. In the next three years he had his biggest Broadway hits, The Little Show and Three's a Crowd. But in 1932, he found himself without a booking. Why not fool around with that...
...Coming up the grand trunk highway from New Delhi, you could see as far away as 14 miles clouds of smoke hanging over Amritsar. Now & then the high golden cupola of the Sikh's Golden Temple would glint through the pall. After three days of rioting, Amritsar's streets were barricaded, piled with debris. Whole rows of shops were gutted. Amritsar's famous hide bazaar was still burning, and its textile row, where merchants from all India came for cloth, was in smoking ruins...