Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the more sacred memories are engendered by reminiscences of a tin trunk that, on rainy days. Author Van Vechten's mother reached off a shelf for him to rummage in. Thinking now of that tin trunk, with its daguerrotypes and snippets of family hair, he remembers placidly that his maternal grandmother, who smoked a pipe, prophesied that he would die on the gallows. She had her reasons. Once, to compel his mother's attention, he snatched a kitchen knife from her by the blade so violently that he still bears the scar. "A similar perversity drove...
...Infanta could not put her hand on the jewels at the moment. During the War she had sent them from Paris to Madrid for safe keeping. They were still in a trunk in a relative's house. She wrote for the trunk immediately. Last week it arrived at her Paris house. The Infanta opened it, pulled out shawl after shawl, half a dozen old umbrellas. But not a jewel did she find...
...Consolidated's three component parts, two have made little effort to retail oil or gasoline. Prairie Oil & Gas owns almost 2,000,000 acres of rich producing lands in the mid-continent fields but has only a small retailing subsidiary. Prairie Pipe has about 13,000 mi. of trunk and gathering lines that honeycomb the country from the Gulf to the Great Lakes, but its business is to carry oil, not sell it. Thus, on Sinclair's retail outlets depends Consolidated success and, as a great oil salesman, that is the new president's problem...
There is where the boy, having survived the puncture of his heart, ran his second greatest risk. One branch of the aorta goes to the head and brain. The other branch goes to the trunk and limbs. Had the bullet been carried by the flowing blood and pulsing artery up toward the brain, it would quickly have plugged some small bore artery, caused quick death. Instead, the pellet turned downward, worked into the left iliac artery, then the left femoral. Surgeons last week left it there, hoping it would work further down the leg where its removal would be less...
...Kreuzlingen Switzerland, peasants have grown accustomed to a tall hollow-eyed man who takes long walks in the country with a watchful companion, never smiles, never speaks. A quietly dressed Hungarian woman arrived in New York last week with a trunk full of paintings and sketches to remind the world that the silent man in Switzerland was once regarded by many as the greatest dancer in the world. His name is Vaslav Nijinsky...