Word: closet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perry, is the ablest foreigner in next week's tournament. An enormous, shaggy-looking Czech, who frequently plays in shorts, he is celebrated off the court for writing mediocre poetry and novels, speaking five languages, and teasing his 4 ft.-11 in. wife by putting her on a closet shelf from which she is too small to clamber down. Neither his domestic eccentricities nor his tennis technique - awkward but effective volleying, a serve with a pronounced top spin - seem adequate grounds for his reaching the finals unless he catches one or more opponents...
...Ottawa discouragement among Conservatives was so acute that within the Party there was talk that Mr. Bennett might abruptly retire and put in the field some other Conservative whom Canada's mob had not become accustomed to blame personally for everything from Depression to moths in the clothes closet...
...they were going to drown him. Another night they slept in a stand of timberland. "That made me think, well, I believe it belongs to my father." His last three nights in captivity were spent in a house near Issaquah, bundled in his blanket and imprisoned in a closet by a man sleeping just outside its door. He said he was well fed, and when they finally released him on a lonely road just before dawn the men told George: "You've been a fine...
Opening with lengthy, minute particulars of Germany's urchin-in-the-jam-closet behavior, Dame France recalled to the League Council that, whereas German Air Minister Goring denied on Dec. 20, 1934 that his country possessed a military air force, three months later Realmleader Hitler told Sir John Simon that the Fatherland's military air force is equal to Great Britain...
Hitler's exit from the jam closet, sticky-faced, the Dame called "the culmination of long and methodical labors pursued in secret. ... It is the [League] Council's duty ... to state the conclusions that must be drawn, for purposes of their treaty policy, by governments...