Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe. The editor, using "diplomatic and gratifying" communications, persuaded him at least to take his charming fictional college boys along. Wearily Author Flandrau capitulated, found the young Harvard men accompanying him to England and France, thought of them as traveling in his heart, his head and his steamer trunk, got rid of them at last with such relief that he did not reread his own account of their adventures until 34 years later...
...went to the Modern Galleries with a few pictures illustrating the life of Lincoln. The manager was unable to sell them on commission, but, interested in other Bealeana, he went out to the slide-maker's home in Germantown to see what else he could discover. He found trunk after trunk of unused drawings, stowed away for 35 years. Few if any of them had captions and it was the work of months to sort into subjects and series the 1,676 pictures that Joseph Boggs Beale hoped one day to see published. Some weeks Artist Beale, in humorous...
With a smile on his face, some new scores in his trunk and a number of signed contracts in his pocket, Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera returned to Manhattan last fortnight from a two-month jaunt around Europe. Briskly he began to tell of plans for this winter's 14-week season in the nation's last remaining permanent opera company. There will be no reduction in box-office prices ($8 top). There will be fewer star performers singing at the Metropolitan...
Ervin Lang's torso, wrapped in a blanket, was found in a swamp across the Indiana line. Headlines: TORSO MURDER; SWAMP MURDER. The legs, neatly sawed with the trousers, socks and shoes still on, were presently found seven miles away in a trunk. Evelyn Smith and her Chinese husband, Harry Jung, had vanished. For a week yellow men traveling with white women were detained all through the Midwest. The Press billed the crime as an endpoint of miscegenation. Fears were expressed that the "sinister Oriental," Harry Jung, had killed his white wife to make his getaway. This billing...
...from Saratoga. By 1883 Saratoga hotels had a capacity of 12,500, sheltered 100,000 costive, gouty, giddy visitors a summer season. To entertain the visitors the Saratoga racetrack was built and gambling establishments were opened. To contain a Saratoga season's clothing and finery the huge Saratoga trunk was invented...