Word: closet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Police searched the Dane house. It was a residential fortress. Its arsenal contained two machine guns, numerous rifles, automatics, tear gas bombs, bottles of nitroglycerin. A trapdoor under a rug led to a hidden room with an emergency exit. In a closet were found bonds worth $319,850, part of which were identified as loot from a recent Jefferson, Wis., bank robbery. Questioning "Mrs. Dane," officers learned that Dane was none other than Fred Burke, alias Thomas Brook, alias "Cornbread" Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, deadliest of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's Chicago gangsters...
President John Martin Thomas roguishly assured his Rutgers undergraduates gathered at a "pep meeting" on the football field that he would not carry his gold-headed cane to church until they had beaten Lafayette. Backs Tellier and Wilcox kept the cane in Prexy's closet. Lafayette 20, Rutgers...
...only country to recognize Conqueror Nadir last week was his northern neighbor, Russia. Hardly had the smoke from Kabul's ancient brass saluting cannon died away than Afghans were telling each other hot news. Servants searching the hastily deserted palace of "Usurper" Habibullah had come upon a locked closet. Inside the closet were six smouldering corpses. Three were recognizable: Abdul Majif and Hayatullah, brother and half-brother of exiled Amanullah, and Mohammed Osman, one-time governor of Kandahar, whose great Afghan influence once won him the title of "King-maker." All three, held as hostages, had been murdered...
...spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...
...town girl, invited by reason of her convenient residence and morals, accuses a sophomore, falsely, of having gotten her with child. When she threatens blackmail, they scuffle. She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron. Her opponent then hides the body in a closet and begins a futile, agonizing pantomime of ease. Brought to trial between the acts, he is acquitted. His brotherly friends prevent him from suicide, dispel his remorse...