Word: trunkful
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...morbid curiosity of the last collecting crowd was soon satisfied when two attendants alighted and, carefully removed a large trunk from the interior...
Speculations amounting to no less than violent demise were still life among the hangers-on when a CRIMSON reporter get to the bottom of the mystery. K. S. Conkey '27 finally confessed to the ownership of the trunk and later confided that ambulance riding was quite his ordinary form of travel being an habitue of the Boston Sanitarium. "As for the trunk," he laughed, the only, thing dead in that is a set of Cicero's Orations...
There, they beheld anthologies in oils, signed by Fry. A tree from Watteau, a sash from Cezanne, a tilted corner from Guy Pene Du Bois?second-hand oddments tumbled from the artistic property-trunk that is Mr. Fry's memory. Brave among them was a portrait of Lytton Strachey. His beard was dank, red, hedged, jowl and cheek; clammy were his hands; unkissed, unblessed, looked this great author. Students, painters, gazed upon him, went away muttering about the Fire, the Frying...
...that he was born to the name of Weiss, son of a scholarly rabbi; that he tock his name from a French magician, Robert Houdini; that his "greatest trick" is allowing himself to be garbed in a dress coat, packed in a bag, boxed in a locked and corded trunk, whence he appears in a few seconds and reveals his wife (or other colleague) garbed, packed, boxed, locked, corded in his place...
...heap new polysyllabies on the head of his obtuse Semegambian followed, or to narrate before the curtain the tragic consequences of "The Wrong Flat", the audience laughs itself sick. When he is off, the play has as much freshness as is found in articles rummaged from grandmother's trunk in the attic...