Word: cupboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...archdeacon, and well he may. He has just been informed that the Holy Grail, the very chalice from which Christ drank at the Last Supper, sits at that very moment in his own parish church at Fardles. The archdeacon rushes home and hides the battered old cup in a cupboard, but almost before he can say Sanctus he is conked cold, and the Grail is hijacked by one of the Devil's disciples...
...after their appointment, the trustees had a look at the rented Tucker plant. It looked bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard: no workable assembly line, no jigs for mass production, no body presses. There were a few modern die presses and foundry equipment, and a snappy paint shop. In what Tucker called the "machine shop and main assembly plant," only a portable crane was visible...
That, thought a Tory housewife in Southwark, was as may be. This particular picture was a long way from proving it. She took another look, then bustled over to the cupboard. There, sure enough, was the selfsame picture, neatly pasted in an old scrapbook. She had clipped it from the Daily Express, dated June 10, 1936, when Stanley Baldwin and his Tories were in charge. Its caption read, "Exclusive picture of Prince Edward,* baby son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent...
...holding down," and is supposed to prevent the flogged one from rising to defend himself from the headmaster's assault. The school messenger now opens the door of the sixth form room, and the headmaster rustles in in his robes of office. A third prepositor goes to a cupboard, from which he takes the birch rod and ceremoniously hands it to the headmaster. The headmaster approaches the kneeling boy and, holding the handle of the birch with both hands, smites the bare behind of the boy six times. He then hands the birch back to the prepositor and rustles...
...cupboard traditionally is left unopened for a school year in Fay House...