Word: closet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attempting to produce Dunsany's "Fame and the Poet", the Dramatic Club set for itself a difficult task. Brilliant as the dialogue is, the play is distinctly of the "closet" type--designed especially to be read. Consequently, the "atmosphere" of the piece is a most elusive thing and extremely difficult to get across the footlights. That the performance almost succeeded in doing this is a matter for no little praise. In fact, the effort was such an admirable one, and there is so much to commend, that a would-be critic hesitates to mention any of the faults--we have...
...want to shield the professor from our cruel world. Closet scholarship is unavailing in a commercial civilization. The thinker must be in vital touch with the magnificent display of energy precious souls term materialism. But high pay is no means to this end. It creates a barrier where we want a bridge. Salaries higher than a living-wage detach from life: only serious work and sacrifice pay in the end. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT...
Beware of the swarthy gentleman with the pursued look and the bundle under his arm. Once safely inside your room he will open that parcel and bring forth anything from cigars to winter suitings. Taking you into the closet he will whisper in your car that he has just come from Cuba or Canada and has managed to get by the custom officials. He wants to go to Chicago and must raise the money immediately. Much as it displeases him he realizes that he must sell his treasures. Since they didn't cost him much in their native land...
...following: (1) Speculators create time values, carrying wheat over from a period of abundance to a period of scarcity; (2) Speculators level prices through the year, giving higher prices to farmers at harvest time, and lower prices to consumers later. (That this second point is not a matter of closet theory is abundantly shown by J. E. Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed to do it during the current crop year, for reasons above indicated, in part: (3) The speculator is a risk-bearer. Millers and grain buyers...
...each undergraduate will ransack his closet for old clothes, old magazines and text-books, and give them to the collector, then we will at least show that we have learned from Canada's experience...