Word: closet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed, poker-faced Major Grayson ( Charles Grapewin), native as a corn shuck, sets out to prove him innocent. By such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most of them are just his sourer-faced neighbors. Whether they blow things up for Nazi gold or just for the heck of it remains as mysterious as where their bombs come from. With the help of three Spanish-American War cronies...
...unhealthy (it smacks of social work); d) that the democratic ideal is most nearly realized in Vermont ("where the town meeting is still a living, functioning institution," i. e., where democracy functions as in the past); e) that the New Deal is incipient Fascism (she sees dictators in every closet); f) that government should be decentralized (her first seven years in small towns were happy); g) that "the educated female is, in general, dewomanized" (but not Dorothy Thompson...
...company on the basis of all for one, one for all. For 25 years, they have drawn identical salaries. Each took a title for the sake of convention, but each has an equal voice in the management. Today they are as indistinguishable as five hats on a closet shelf. All are stocky, all about five-feet...
...however, the people should lounge around and "absorb" art while drinking Chianti in a smoke-field room. That a happy medium between the Bohemian aesthete and the straight-laced scholar can be reached is being very successfully proven by Leverett House. Its persistent attempts to remove art from the closet atmosphere of a gallery and place it within the warm and friendly precincts of a comfortable room deserve loud acclamation...
Several legislators who allegedly accepted stock in the water-closet company in return for pushing through a health bill for it were arrested with Lieutenant Governor Hayes on this and other counts. Last month when the trials began Mr. Hayes and 22 others pleaded not guilty. Two other defendants pleaded guilty, one of them Harry Mackenzie,† longtime first lieutenant of Connecticut's late Republican dictator, hard-bitten John Henry Roraback...